DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Axibase vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Axibase vs. HBase

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

1999

2012

2013

2008

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

15585

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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 for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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