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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. JaguarDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	4.39
Rank	#81	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.jaguardb.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

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

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Altibase

InterSystems

DataJaguar, Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1999

2018

2015

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2023.3, June 2023

3.3 July 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java, C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

rights management via user accounts

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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