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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Memgraph 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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

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

Website

altibase.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.gigaspaces.com

memgraph.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Altibase

Axibase Corporation

Gigaspaces Technologies

Memgraph Ltd

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1999

2013

2000

2017

2013

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15585

15.5, September 2020

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

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