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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EJDB vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

altibase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

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

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

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Altibase

Softmotions

CCRi and others

IBM

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

1999

2012

2014

1983

host version

2015

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

12.1, October 2016

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

depending on storage layer

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

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

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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