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

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series 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
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.compinot.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhsqldb.orgnsdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.pinot.apache.orggraphite.readthedocs.iohsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsChris Davis
Initial release19992015200620012017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.0, September 20232.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaPythonJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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 indexesyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languagenoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoJava, SQLno
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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