DBMS > Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. IRONdb vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. IRONdb vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Widely used open source RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

altibase.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.mysql.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Altibase

Atos Convergence Creators

Circonus LLC.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1999

2016

2017

1995

2020

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

V0.10.20, January 2018

8.4.0, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

LDAP

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes, in Lua

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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