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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfinityDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
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Score1.25
Rank#198  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#351  Overall
#3  Event Stores
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#373  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperAltibaseIBMBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release199920172002
Current releasev7.1.0.5.3, March 20212.04.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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
Secondary indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesActive-active shard replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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