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

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  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 WhisperA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.compinot.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webboilerbay.comnsdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.pinot.apache.orggraphite.readthedocs.ioboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsChris DavisBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release19992015200620022017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.0, September 20234.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen 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 VMLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes: 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 indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCHTTP API
Sockets
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaJava
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonono
Triggersyesnono
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 Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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