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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

altibase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

origodb.com

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Altibase

IBM

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

1999

2014

2005

2009

under the name LiveDB

2004

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Role based authorization

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