DBMS > Altibase vs. Apache Doris vs. Google BigQuery vs. Linter vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Doris vs. Google BigQuery vs. Linter vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

RDBMS for high security requirements

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

altibase.com

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

cloud.google.com/bigquery

linter.ru

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Google

relex.ru

ScyllaDB

Initial release

1999

2017

2010

1990

2015

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.2.2, February 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
MySQL client

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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