DBMS > Altibase vs. Apache Impala vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Impala vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Rank	#186	Overall
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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

impala.apache.org

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.hawkular.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1999

2013

2008

2014

2011

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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