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ALTIBASE HDB

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Developer(s)
  
Altibase Corporation

Stable release
  
v6.5.1 / 2015

Available in
  
English

Initial release
  
2000

Development status
  
Active

Operating system
  
AIX, HP-UX, LINUX, Windows

ALTIBASE HDB is a in-memory database, relational database management system manufactured by Altibase Corporation. The software comes with a hybrid architecture which allows it to access both memory-resident and disk-resident tables using single interface. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous replication and offers real-time ACID compliance. Support is also offered for a variety of SQL standards and programming languages. Other important capabilities include data import and export, data encryption for security, multiple data access command sets, materialized view and temporary tables, and others.

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Features

ALTIBASE HDB is a so-called "hybrid DBMS", meaning that it simultaneously supports access to both memory-resident and disk-resident tables via a single interface. It is compatible with Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, and Windows. It supports the complete SQL standard, features Multiversion concurrency control (MVCC), implements Fuzzy and Ping-Pong Checkpointing for periodically backing up memory-resident data, and ships with Replication and Database Link functionality.

History

Altibase acquired an in-memory database engine from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in February 2000, and commercialized the database in October of the same year. In 2001, Altibase changed the name of the in-memory database product from "Spiner" to "Altibase" in 2001. In 2004, Altibase integrated the in-memory database with a disk-resident database to create a hybrid DBMS, released version 4.0 and renamed it as ALTIBASE HDB. Altibase released version 5.5.1 and 6.1.1 in 2012, version 6.3.1 in November 2013, and 6.5.1 in May 2015. Altibase claims that this is the world's first hybrid DBMS.

Tools and Utilities

Adapter for Oracle
For copying data that have been modified in ALTIBASE HDB to an Oracle database.
Audit
A tool for resolving replication conflicts
CheckServer
For monitoring the database server process and executing a script if it has terminated
iLoader
For downloading and uploading table data. Typically used during database migration tasks.
iSQL
A command-line utility for executing SQL statements
Migration Center
A GUI tool for migrating data from other database products to ALTIBASE HDB
Replication Manager
A GUI tool for simplifying replication management tasks
Heartbeat
An utility detects node failures in a distributed database environment and enables the DBA to counter failures.
Hadoop Connector
An utility that enables the efficient transfer of data between Apache Hadoop and ALTIBASE servers. It also allows ALTIBASE to handle data management and Hadoop to handle data analysis.

Application Development Interfaces

ALTIBASE HDB includes the following application development interfaces:

ODBC (Open Database Connectivity)
JDBC
For connecting to ALTIBASE HDB via JDBC
PHP
For integrating PHP pages with ALTIBASE HDB via ODBC
Perl
A Perl DBD (Database Driver)
.NET Data Provider
For connecting to ALTIBASE HDB via applications based on the Microsoft .NET Framework
OLE DB Driver
For connecting to ALTIBASE HDB via the OLE DB interface
X/Open XA Interface
For integrating ALTIBASE HDB in a distributed transaction environment
iLoader API
An API for the bundled iLoader utility
CheckServer API
An API for the bundled CheckServer utility

References

ALTIBASE HDB Wikipedia
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