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DBMS > Altibase vs. Firebolt vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Firebolt vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SpaceTime

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.firebolt.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.firebolt.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAltibaseFirebolt Analytics Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Mireo
Initial release1999202020102020
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes

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