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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cassandra vs. EDB Postgres vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessThe 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.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comcassandra.apache.orgwww.enterprisedb.comwww.exasol.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookEnterpriseDBExasolCirconus LLC.
Initial release19992008200520002017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20234.1.3, July 202314, December 2021V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsyes, in Lua
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
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AltibaseCassandraEDB PostgresEXASOLIRONdb
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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