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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Hazelcast vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. QuestDB vs. Riak TS

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA widely adopted in-memory data gridA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comhazelcast.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisquestdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAltibaseHazelcastInterSystemsQuestDB Technology IncOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release19992008201820142015
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.3.6, November 20232023.3, June 20233.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlang
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageyesSQL with time-series extensionsyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesyesnoErlang
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlyesno
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AltibaseHazelcastInterSystems IRISQuestDBRiak TS
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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