DBMS > Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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Name

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Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

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

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

docs.intersystems.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Atos Convergence Creators

InterSystems

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1999

2016

1997

2014

2011

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

2018.1.4, May 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

LDAP

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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