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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. TimesTen

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpatial extension of PostgreSQLIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpostgis.netwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAltibaseSoftmotionsMicrosoftOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19992012201520051998
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023V13.4.2, February 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++CC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
server-lesshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
in-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonouser defined functionsPL/SQL
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousing Azure authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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