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DBMS > Altibase vs. InfinityDB vs. jBASE vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. InfinityDB vs. jBASE vs. Kingbase

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comboilerbay.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAltibaseBoiler Bay Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release1999200219911999
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20234.05.7V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysoptionalyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICStandard with numerous extensions
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
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Java.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID
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-standardnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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