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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BaseX vs. Couchbase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. QuestDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score16.59
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.combasex.orgwww.couchbase.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisquestdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.basex.orgdocs.couchbase.comdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseBaseX GmbHCouchbase, Inc.InterSystemsQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release19992007201120182014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202310.7, August 2023Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20232023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC, C++, Go and ErlangJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++yesno
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsyes infovia the TAP protocolyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic ShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
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.yesyes infoEphemeral bucketsyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.yes
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AltibaseBaseXCouchbase infoOriginally called MembaseInterSystems IRISQuestDB
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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