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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. IBM Db2 vs. STSdb vs. Yanza

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Document store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4yanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.datastax.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperAltibaseDataStaxIBMSTS Soft SCYanza
Initial release199920111983 infohost version20112015
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20236.8, April 202012.1, October 20164.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
WindowsWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)no
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
.NET Client APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
Java
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDnono
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.yesyes
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-standardnono
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AltibaseDatastax EnterpriseIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2STSdbYanza
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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