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DBMS > Altibase vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Cachelot.io vs. EDB Postgres vs. InterSystems IRIS

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Cachelot.io vs. EDB Postgres vs. InterSystems IRIS

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseIn-memory caching systemThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comphoenix.apache.orgcachelot.iowww.enterprisedb.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iris
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsphoenix.apache.orgwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.cls
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software FoundationEnterpriseDBInterSystems
Initial release19992014201520052018
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201914, December 20212023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCMemcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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