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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. jBASE vs. TimescaleDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.timescale.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.timescale.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Timescale

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1999

1991

2017

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.7

2.15.0, May 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

yes, each node contains all data

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

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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