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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Spatial extension of H2

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Altibase

CNRS

IBM

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1999

2013

2014

2018

2011

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

based on H2

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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