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DBMS > Altibase vs. Citus vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Citus vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. TypeDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iristypedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.citusdata.comdocs.heavy.aidocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clstypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseHEAVY.AI, Inc.InterSystemsVaticle
Initial release19992010201620182016
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20238.1, December 20185.10, January 20222023.3, June 20232.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++ and CUDAJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinuxAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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AltibaseCitusHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022InterSystems IRISTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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