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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PostGIS vs. TigerGraph

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilitySpatial extension of PostgreSQLA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitealtibase.combangdb.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irispostgis.netwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.bangdb.comdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clspostgis.net/­documentationdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAltibaseSachin Sinha, BangDBInterSystems
Initial release19992012201820052017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20212023.3, June 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++CC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyes
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL like support with command line toolyesyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
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 modeyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes (enterprise version only)yesyes infobased on PostgreSQLRole-based access control
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