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DBMS > Altibase vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 vs. JanusGraph vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 vs. JanusGraph vs. jBASE

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBGraph DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2janusgraph.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.janusgraph.orgdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAltibaseCCRi and othersIBMLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release199920141983 infohost version20171991
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0.0, May 202412.1, October 20160.6.3, February 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptional
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyesnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layeryes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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