DBMS > Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Hypertable vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Hypertable vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

altibase.com

www.bigchaindb.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Altibase

Hypertable Inc.

InterSystems

Microsoft

Initial release

1999

2016

2009

2018

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Python

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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