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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Badger vs. Datomic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.datomic.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.datomic.comdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseDGraph LabsCognitectInterSystems
Initial release19992017201220182014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.6735, June 20232023.3, June 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoJava, ClojureC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
GoClojure
Java
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyesuser defined functions
TriggersyesnoBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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