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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Badger vs. Drizzle vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Pinecone

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAltibaseDGraph LabsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerInterSystemsPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release19992017200820182019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.2.4, September 20122023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++GoC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
GoC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes
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