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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. DolphinDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.dolphindb.comwww.enterprisedb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2database.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperAltibaseDolphinDB, IncEnterpriseDBGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Thomas Mueller
Initial release19992018200520122005
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023v2.00.4, January 202214, December 20212.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree community version availablecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++CJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.limited functionality with using 'rules'Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
TriggersyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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