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DBMS > Altibase vs. IBM Db2 vs. IRONdb vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. IBM Db2 vs. IRONdb vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAltibaseIBMCirconus LLC.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release19991983 infohost version201719911994
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202312.1, October 2016V0.10.20, January 20185.718.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree version is availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C and C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsoptionalno
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 infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
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
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesyes, in Luayesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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