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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cubrid vs. H2GIS vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Spatial extension of H2

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

altibase.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.h2gis.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

cubrid.org/manuals

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Altibase

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

CNRS

InterSystems

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

1999

2008

2013

2018

2004

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

11.0, January 2021

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

yes

based on H2

yes

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