DBMS > Altibase vs. GeoSpock vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Linter vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GeoSpock vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Linter vs. SAP HANA

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

RDBMS for high security requirements

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

geospock.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

linter.ru

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Altibase

GeoSpock

InterSystems

relex.ru

SAP

Initial release

1999

2018

1990

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.0, September 2019

2023.3, June 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Javascript

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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