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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Impala vs. Manticore Search vs. TimescaleDB vs. Titan

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAnalytic DBMS for HadoopMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comimpala.apache.orgmanticoresearch.comwww.timescale.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.timescale.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaManticore SoftwareTimescaleAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release19992013201720172012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20234.1.0, June 20226.0, February 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++CJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nonoCan index from XMLyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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