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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Pinot vs. EsgynDB vs. Graphite vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

pinot.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.pinot.apache.org

graphite.readthedocs.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Esgyn

Chris Davis

SAP

Initial release

1999

2015

2006

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.0.0, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

Python

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

Linux
Unix

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

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

locking

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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