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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. Blueflood vs. GBase

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for HadoopScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comdruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgblueflood.iowww.gbase.cn
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wiki
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaRackspaceGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.
Initial release19992012201320132004
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202329.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 2022GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++JavaC, Java, Python
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenouser defined functions
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnoyes

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