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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAnalytic DBMS for HadoopBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comimpala.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release1999201320162012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20234.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++PythonJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyesno

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