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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Badger vs. CouchDB vs. HyperSQL

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#328  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgercouchdb.apache.orghsqldb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperAltibaseDGraph LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer
Initial release1999201720052001
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.3.3, December 20232.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++GoErlangJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
GoC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptJava, SQL
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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