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DBMS > Altibase vs. Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Db2 vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Db2 vs. SpaceTime

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Relational 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
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitealtibase.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsphoenix.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software FoundationIBMMireo
Initial release199920141983 infohost version2020
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201912.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
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-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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