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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Faircom DB vs. OpenEdge vs. SWC-DB vs. TimesTen

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Application development environment with integrated database management systemA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.progress.com/­openedgegithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAltibaseFairCom CorporationProgress Software CorporationAlex KashirinOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19991979198420201998
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023V12, November 2020OpenEdge 12.2, March 20200.5, April 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C++C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesnoPL/SQL
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioninghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Source-replica replicationMulti-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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes 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.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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