DBMS > Altibase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

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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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial 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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

origodb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

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

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Altibase

InterSystems

Robert Friberg et al

SAP

SiteWhere

Initial release

1999

2018

2009

under the name LiveDB

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2023.3, June 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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