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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kdb vs. RDF4J

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.High performance Time Series DBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealtibase.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.hawkular.orgkx.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecode.kx.comrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseAxibase CorporationCommunity supported by Red HatKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release1999201320142000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032004
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023155853.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaqJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (q)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnorights management via user accountsno
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AltibaseAxibaseHawkular MetricsKdbRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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