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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.progress.com/­openedgeopentsdb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAltibaseIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystemsProgress Software Corporationcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release19992010201819842011
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232023.3, June 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyesyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyesno
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesUsers and groupsno
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