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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Kylin vs. Apache Pinot vs. Citus vs. Graphite

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comkylin.apache.orgpinot.apache.orgwww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualskylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.citusdata.comgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncApache Software Foundation and contributorsChris Davis
Initial release19992015201520102006
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.1.0, July 20201.0.0, September 20238.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaCPython
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxLinux
Unix
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.nonoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like query languageyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolocking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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