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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Blueflood vs. CouchDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. ToroDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comblueflood.iocouchdb.apache.orgwww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.enterprisedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerEnterpriseDB8Kdata
Initial release19992013200520052016
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.3.3, December 202314, December 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaErlangCJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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