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DBMS > Altibase vs. MaxDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. MaxDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.commaxdb.sap.comorigodb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationorigodb.com/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAltibaseSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Robert Friberg et alMireoTimescale
Initial release199919842009 infounder the name LiveDB20202017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.9.10.12, February 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C#C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.NetC#
C++
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesyesnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyesyes infoDomain Eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedFixed-grid hypercubesyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesdepending on modelnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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