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DBMS > Altibase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSCloud-based data warehousing serviceSpatial extension of SQLiteScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexterminusdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperAltibaseIBMAlessandro FurieriDataChemist Ltd.Oracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19992014200820181998
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0.0, August 202011.0.0, January 2023Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedserver-lessLinuxIBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyesPL/SQL
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnoneJournaling StreamsMulti-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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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