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DBMS > Altibase vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. TerarkDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAltibaseCirconus LLC.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release1999201719992016
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023V0.10.20, January 2018V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C and JavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Standard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes, in Luauser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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