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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Blazegraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 vs. ITTIA

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#273  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comblazegraph.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.ittia.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswiki.blazegraph.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperAltibaseBlazegraphGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBMITTIA L.L.C.
Initial release1999200620121983 infohost version2007
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.1.5, March 201912.1, October 20168.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercial infofree version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SPARQL is used as query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesyes
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDatabase file passwords

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