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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SAP IQ vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

IBM

SAP, formerly Sybase

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1999

2017

1994

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.0

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active-active shard replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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