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

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  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 WhispermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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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
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.compinot.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlnsdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.pinot.apache.orggraphite.readthedocs.ionsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsChris DavisHughes Technologies
Initial release19992015200619942017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.0, September 20234.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaPythonCJava, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
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 languagenoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
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 ConsistencynonenoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingnoyes
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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