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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Trend Chart

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	10.26
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

couchdb.apache.org

origodb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

origodb.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Robert Friberg et al

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1999

2005

2009

under the name LiveDB

1987

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.3.3, December 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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