DBMS > Altibase vs. Badger vs. EventStoreDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL

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

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Event Store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.eventstore.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

developers.eventstore.com

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Altibase

DGraph Labs

Event Store Limited

InterSystems

Initial release

1999

2017

2012

2018

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

21.2, February 2021

2023.3, June 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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