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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	4.68
Rank	#76	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

duckdb.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

duckdb.org/docs

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Altibase

Softmotions

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1999

2018

2012

1998

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

0.10, February 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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