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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. InfluxDB vs. IRONdb vs. searchxml

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb 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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitealtibase.comwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.datastax.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAltibaseDataStaxCirconus LLC.informationpartners gmbh
Initial release19992011201320172015
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20236.8, April 20202.7.6, April 2024V0.10.20, January 20181.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoyes, in Luayes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
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 per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnonomultiple readers, single writer
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.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectsimple rights management via user accountsnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
More information provided by the system vendor
AltibaseDatastax EnterpriseInfluxDBIRONdbsearchxml
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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