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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. InfluxDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. jBASE vs. searchxml

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitealtibase.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAltibaseInterSystemsRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)informationpartners gmbh
Initial release19992013201819912015
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.7.6, April 20242023.3, June 20235.71.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesoptionalyes
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.nonoyesyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationyesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
More information provided by the system vendor
AltibaseInfluxDBInterSystems IRISjBASEsearchxml
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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