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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Ignite vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. QuestDB vs. Vitess

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comignite.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisquestdb.iovitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsquestdb.io/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software FoundationInterSystemsQuestDB Technology IncThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release19992015201820142013
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023Apache Ignite 2.62023.3, June 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, Java, .NetJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustGo
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL with time-series extensionsyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID for single-table writesACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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AltibaseIgniteInterSystems IRISQuestDBVitess
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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