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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. IBM Db2 vs. Interbase vs. RDF4J

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealtibase.combangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.bangdb.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseSachin Sinha, BangDBIBMEmbarcaderoSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release199920121983 infohost version19842004
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023BangDB 2.0, October 202112.1, October 2016InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSD 3commercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++C and C++CJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL like support with command line toolyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Interbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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