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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. Axibase vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comdrill.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financedgraph.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdrill.apache.org/­docsdgraph.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software FoundationAxibase CorporationDgraph Labs, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release19992012201320162010
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.20.3, January 202315585
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoErlang
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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