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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Graphite vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. XTDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilitySearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseChris DavisInterSystemsMicrosoftJuxt Ltd.
Initial release19992006201820152019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232023.3, June 2023V11.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++PythonClojure
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Unix
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesyes infousing Azure authentication
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AltibaseGraphiteInterSystems IRISMicrosoft Azure AI SearchXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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