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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OrigoDB vs. RocksDB

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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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

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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	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

origodb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

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

origodb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Altibase

InterSystems

Robert Friberg et al

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1999

2018

2009

under the name LiveDB

2013

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2023.3, June 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

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

Role based authorization

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