DBMS > Altibase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenSearch vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenSearch 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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

objectbox.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

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

docs.objectbox.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Altibase

InterSystems

ObjectBox Limited

Amazon Web Services

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1999

2018

2017

2021

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2023.3, June 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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++

C and C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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