DBMS > Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Galaxybase vs. MariaDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Galaxybase vs. MariaDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#375	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	93.81
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

altibase.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

galaxybase.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

Altibase

Atos Convergence Creators

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1999

2016

2017

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2020

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

Nov 20, November 2021

11.3.2, February 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

Strong typed schema

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

LDAP

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

Go
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined procedures and functions

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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