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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

altibase.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Altibase

Axibase Corporation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Rocket Software

Initial release

1999

2013

2010

1985

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15585

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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