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DBMS > Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  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 dataA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealtibase.comdruid.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.hawkular.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogleCommunity supported by Red HatRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release19992012201720141991
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202329.0.1, April 20245.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptional
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL for queryingyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnononoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACID
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.yesnononoyes
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 based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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