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

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 HadoopWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comdruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release19992012201320042019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202329.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 2022GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C, Java, PythonClojure
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryesyes, each node contains all data
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
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 Kerberosyes

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