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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Interbase

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscloud.google.com/­datastore/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperAltibaseGoogleIBMEmbarcadero
Initial release1999200820171984
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.0InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C and C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyesyes
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.nononono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query language (GQL)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsusing Google App Engineyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
TriggersyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using PaxosActive-active shard replicationInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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