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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. IRONdb vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.93
Rank	#181	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#130	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#363	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#330	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

altibase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-warehouse

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.circonus.com/irondb

Developer

Altibase

IBM

Circonus LLC.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1999

2014

2017

2020

Current release

v7.1.0.5.3, March 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

since February 2018

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

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

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