DBMS > Altibase vs. H2 vs. Immudb vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. H2 vs. Immudb vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

www.h2database.com

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.immudb.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Thomas Mueller

Codenotary

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1999

2005

2020

2014

2011

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

1.2.3, April 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

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

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

none

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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