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DBMS > Altibase vs. DolphinDB vs. EXASOL vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. DolphinDB vs. EXASOL vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.dolphindb.comwww.exasol.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAltibaseDolphinDB, IncExasolEmbarcaderoCirconus LLC.
Initial release19992018200019842017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023v2.00.4, January 2022InterBase 2020, December 2019V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.nononono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
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
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesuser defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes, in Lua
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesInterbase Change Viewsconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
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.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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