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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. InfluxDB vs. jBASE vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Altibase

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1999

2013

1991

2000

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

5.7

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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