DBMS > Altibase vs. Apache Pinot vs. FileMaker vs. OpenSearch vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Pinot vs. FileMaker vs. OpenSearch vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

altibase.com

pinot.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

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

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Amazon Web Services

Rocket Software

Initial release

1999

2015

1983

2021

1985

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.0.0, September 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
Python

PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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