DBMS > Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. MariaDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. MariaDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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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

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

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

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

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

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

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

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

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Altibase

Atos Convergence Creators

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

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Alex Kashirin

Tencent

Initial release

1999

2016

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2020

2013

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

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

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Automatic 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

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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