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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

origodb.com

rdf4j.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Altibase

Axibase Corporation

Robert Friberg et al

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1999

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

2004

2000

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15585

3.45.2 (12 March 2024), March 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

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net

Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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 authorization

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