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DBMS > Altibase vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Spark SQL

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAltibaseCCRi and othersInterSystemsMicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release19992014201820122014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20234.0.5, February 20242023.3, June 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ScalaScala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyesAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesno
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