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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hazelcast

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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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	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

druid.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hazelcast.com

Technical documentation

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

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

Hazelcast

Initial release

1999

2012

2010

2008

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

Replicated Map

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

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