DBMS > Altibase vs. InfinityDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. InfinityDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

boilerbay.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

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

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Boiler Bay Inc.

InterSystems

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

1999

2002

2018

2014

2011

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

4.0

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

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

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

JSON types

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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