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DBMS > Altibase vs. Faircom DB vs. Hypertable vs. Interbase vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Faircom DB vs. Hypertable vs. Interbase vs. RavenDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.00
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#311  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
#140  Relational DBMS
Score5.04
Rank#71  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#101  Overall
#17  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseravendb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseFairCom CorporationHypertable Inc.EmbarcaderoHibernating Rhinos
Initial release19991979200919842010
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023V12, November 20200.9.8.11, March 2016InterBase 2020, December 20195.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++C++CC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresnoyesno
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnoyesSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).selectable replication factor on file system levelInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentnoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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