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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. Brytlyt vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

brytlyt.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.brytlyt.io

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Altibase

Axibase Corporation

Brytlyt

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1999

2013

2016

2010

2013

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15585

5.0, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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