DBMS > Altibase vs. Apache Impala vs. Oracle vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Impala vs. Oracle vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SWC-DB

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A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
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with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
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with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Website

altibase.com

impala.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

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

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Oracle

SAP, Sybase

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1999

2013

1980

1987

2020

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

23c, September 2023

16.0

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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