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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Pinot vs. Cassandra vs. Graphite vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

pinot.apache.org

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.pinot.apache.org

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

graphite.readthedocs.io

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Chris Davis

Initial release

1999

2015

2008

2006

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.0.0, September 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Python

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP API
Sockets

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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