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DBMS > Altibase vs. EDB Postgres vs. HarperDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EDB Postgres vs. HarperDB vs. RDF4J

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSThe 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.HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#243  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.enterprisedb.comwww.harperdb.iordf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseEnterpriseDBHarperDBSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release1999200520172004
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202314, December 20213.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CNode.jsJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdynamic schemayes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Custom Functions infosince release 3.1yes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesno

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