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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. InfinityDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. ITTIA vs. Snowflake

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#273  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comboilerbay.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.ittia.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAltibaseBoiler Bay Inc.InterSystemsITTIA L.L.C.Snowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release19992002201820072014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20234.02023.3, June 20238.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradedepending on used data modelFixed schemayes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Java.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesDatabase file passwordsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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