DBMS > Altibase vs. IBM Db2 vs. IRONdb vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. IBM Db2 vs. IRONdb vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

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

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Altibase

IBM

Circonus LLC.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Initial release

1999

1983

host version

2017

1991

1989

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

12.1, October 2016

V0.10.20, January 2018

5.7

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free version is available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

yes, in Lua

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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