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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

druid.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

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

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Softmotions

Google

Initial release

1999

2012

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix

server-less

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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 for querying

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

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