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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Pinot vs. Geode vs. Graphite vs. Infobright

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.compinot.apache.orggeode.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.pinot.apache.orggeode.apache.org/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Chris DavisIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release19992015200220062005
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.0, September 20231.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaPythonC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (OQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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