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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Impala vs. Hypertable vs. NuoDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitealtibase.comimpala.apache.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldoc.nuodb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaHypertable Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release19992013200920132008
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20234.1.0, June 20220.9.8.11, March 20165.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoJava, SQLno
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system levelyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
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.yesnoyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno

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