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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. BaseX vs. GigaSpaces vs. HBase

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitealtibase.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financebasex.orgwww.gigaspaces.comhbase.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.basex.orgdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAltibaseAxibase CorporationBaseX GmbHGigaspaces TechnologiesApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release19992013200720002008
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231558510.7, August 202315.5, September 20202.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringno infoXQuery supports typesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languagenoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesyesyesyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersyesyesyes infovia eventsyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writerACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsRole-based access controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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