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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. searchxml vs. SQream DB vs. TypeDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application servera GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssqream.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.sqream.comtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseInterSystemsinformationpartners gmbhSQream TechnologiesVaticle
Initial release19992018201520172016
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232023.3, June 20231.02022.1.6, December 20222.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
WindowsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesyes infoon the application serveruser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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AltibaseInterSystems IRISsearchxmlSQream DBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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