DBMS > Altibase vs. atoti vs. Axibase vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. atoti vs. Axibase vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

atoti.io

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

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

docs.atoti.io

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Altibase

ActiveViam

Axibase Corporation

Baidu

Microsoft

Initial release

1999

2013

2018

1989

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15585

0.9

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free versions available

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Python

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

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

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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