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DBMS > Altibase vs. EXASOL vs. Immudb vs. IRONdb vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EXASOL vs. Immudb vs. IRONdb vs. Vitess

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.exasol.comgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/vitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.immudb.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseExasolCodenotaryCirconus LLC.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release19992000202020172013
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.2.3, April 2022V0.10.20, January 201815.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC and C++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesSQL-like syntaxSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsnoyes, in Luayes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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