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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. IBM Db2 vs. Ingres vs. OpenEdge vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Well established RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.actian.com/ingres

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Altibase

IBM

Actian Corporation

Progress Software Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1999

1983

host version

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1984

2000

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

12.1, October 2016

11.2, May 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

MVCC

yes

via file-system locks

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

Users and groups

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