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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. Transbase

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.00
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score1.43
Rank#160  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepostgis.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9postgis.net/­documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAltibaseRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release1999199120051987
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.73.4.2, February 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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