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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. HyperSQL vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Splunk vs. Titan

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityAnalytics Platform for Big DataTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitealtibase.comhsqldb.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.splunk.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAltibaseInterSystemsSplunk Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release19992001201820032012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.7.2, June 20232023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsJava, SQLyesyesyes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and rolesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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