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DBMS > Altibase vs. Apache Impala vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Impala vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Rockset

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score3.55
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comimpala.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesrockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCirconus LLC.MicrosoftRockset
Initial release19992013201720122019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20234.1.0, June 2022V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageC++C++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinuxhostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesdynamic typing
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.nonononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in Luanono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonooptimistic lockingno
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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