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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. Firebird vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Db2

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.firebirdsql.orgcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscloud.google.com/­datastore/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperAltibaseAxibase CorporationFirebird FoundationGoogleIBM
Initial release199920132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20081983 infohost version
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023155855.0.0, January 202412.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infofree version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes, details hereyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (GQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesPSQLusing Google App Engineyes
TriggersyesyesyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using Paxosyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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