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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Immudb vs. STSdb

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.immudb.io
DeveloperAltibaseThomas MuellerIBMCodenotarySTS Soft SC
Initial release19992005201720202011
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.2.220, July 20232.01.2.3, April 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++GoC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesnono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseActive-active shard replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)No - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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