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DBMS > Altibase vs. Datomic vs. GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Datomic vs. GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitySpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA multi-model DBMS and application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.datomic.comgeospock.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cache
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.datomic.comdocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperAltibaseCognitectGeoSpockInterSystems
Initial release199920121997
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.6735, June 20232.0, September 20192018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++Java, ClojureJava, Javascript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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