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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.14
Rank	#159	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#264	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	17.85
Rank	#37	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#120	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

axibase.com/products/axibase-time-series-database

www.cloudera.com/products/open-source/apache-hadoop/impala.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

altibase.com/resources/manuals

github.com/axibase/atsd

docs.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/impala.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Altibase

Axibase Corporation

Cloudera

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1999

2013

1998

Current release

v7.1.0.5.3, March 2021

15585

3.4.0, April 2020

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

since February 2018

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Altibase is an enterprise grade open source DBMS . It allows for high performance...
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Competitive advantages

Since its inception, Altibase has been renowned for its in-memory capabilities. Altibase...
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Typical application scenarios

Altibase has been deployed for over 6000 mission-critical use cases that demand hundreds...
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Key customers

Since 1999, Altibase has served over 600 enterprise clients including 9 Fortune Global...
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Market metrics

Over 600 global enterprise clients including 8 Fortune Global 500 companies Over...
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Licensing and pricing models

No License Cost Altibase is an open source DBMS which includes its sharding Subscription...
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