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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Impala vs. CouchDB vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

impala.apache.org

couchdb.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

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

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

opensearch.org/docs/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Amazon Web Services

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

1999

2013

2005

2021

1987

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

3.3.3, December 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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