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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. jBASE vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

altibase.com

www.hawkular.org

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Altibase

Community supported by Red Hat

IBM

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1999

2014

2017

1991

2015

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.0

5.7

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Active-active shard replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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