DBMS > Altibase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrientDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

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

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Google

InterSystems

Microsoft

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

1999

2017

2018

2014

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2023.3, June 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

JavaScript

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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