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DBMS > Altibase vs. InfinityDB vs. jBASE vs. Snowflake

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

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  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 middlewareCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comboilerbay.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAltibaseBoiler Bay Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Snowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release1999200219912014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20234.05.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes 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 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 capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes
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
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Java.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesno 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 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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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