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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ignite vs. OpenEdge

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Application development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeignite.apache.orgwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperAltibaseGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMApache Software FoundationProgress Software Corporation
Initial release19992004201720151984
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0Apache Ignite 2.6OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonC and C++C++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92Standard with numerous extensionsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes
Triggersyesyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesActive-active shard replicationyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers and groups

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