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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. Databricks vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. MaxDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.databricks.comcloud.google.com/­datastoremaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.databricks.comcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseAxibase CorporationDatabricksGoogleSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release19992013201320081984
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023155857.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxhostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes, details hereyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languagewith Databricks SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesuser defined functions and aggregatesusing Google App Engineyes
TriggersyesyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication using PaxosSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACID
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AltibaseAxibaseDatabricksGoogle Cloud DatastoreMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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