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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cachelot.io vs. DuckDB vs. MaxDB vs. Realm

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSIn-memory caching systemAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comcachelot.ioduckdb.orgmaxdb.sap.comrealm.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsduckdb.org/­docsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release19992015201819842014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.0, June 20247.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lessAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Memcached protocolArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesnonoyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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