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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

altibase.com

drill.apache.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.sqlite.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

drill.apache.org/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

SiteWhere

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1999

2012

2010

2000

2011

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Based on Windows Authentication

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