DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.hawkular.org

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

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

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

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Community supported by Red Hat

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2016

1999

2012

2014

1991

Current release

2.1, December 2018

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

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

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