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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. dBASE vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Qdrant vs. Teradata

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.dbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.teradata.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeqdrant.tech/­documentationdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperAltibaseAsthon TateIBMQdrantTeradata
Initial release19991979201720211984
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023dBASE 2019, 20192.0Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
dBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneActive-active shard replicationCollection-level replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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