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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

Technical documentation

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

docs.heavy.ai

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

Altibase

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

IBM

Initial release

1999

2016

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.10, January 2022

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Active-active shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

No - written data is immutable

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

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