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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. SiteWhere vs. YottaDB

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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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

drill.apache.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

drill.apache.org/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

SiteWhere

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1999

2012

2010

2001

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

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

AGPL 3.0

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

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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