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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. Derby vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comdrill.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derbywww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdrill.apache.org/­docsdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release19992012199720132003
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.20.3, January 202310.17.1.0, November 20232.7.6, April 20241.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++Java.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
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AltibaseApache DrillDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDBInfluxDBMemcached
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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