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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. FileMaker vs. OrigoDB vs. QuestDB vs. RDF4J

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerorigodb.comquestdb.iordf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationorigodb.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleRobert Friberg et alQuestDB Technology IncSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release199919832009 infounder the name LiveDB20142004
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202319.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C#Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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 infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infovia pluginsnoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP.NetC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesyesnoyes
Triggersyesyesyes infoDomain Eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesdepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID for single-table writesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes 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.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole based authorizationno
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AltibaseFileMakerOrigoDBQuestDBRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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