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DBMS > Altibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Infobright vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Infobright vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.00
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.00
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#378  Overall
#51  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealtibase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdborigodb.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseorigodb.com/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Robert Friberg et alSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release1999201220052009 infounder the name LiveDB2004
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CC#Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.NetJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesyes
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes 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
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesRole based authorizationno

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