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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Phoenix vs. GeoMesa vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

phoenix.apache.org

www.geomesa.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

phoenix.apache.org

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1999

2014

2011

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

4.0.5, February 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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