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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HugeGraph vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.49
Rank	#79	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#339	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

cloud.google.com/datastore

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Altibase

Axibase Corporation

Google

Baidu

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1999

2013

2008

2018

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15585

0.9

11.3, April 2022

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

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

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

Java, C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes, details here

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

using Google App Engine

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Java

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong 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.

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

edges in graph

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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