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DBMS > Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. GigaSpaces vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. GigaSpaces vs. RRDtool

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.combangdb.comwww.gigaspaces.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.bangdb.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAltibaseSachin Sinha, BangDBGigaspaces TechnologiesTobias Oetiker
Initial release1999201220001999
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023BangDB 2.0, October 202115.5, September 20201.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++Java, C++, .NetC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesNumeric data only
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.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL like support with command line toolSQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesno
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes (enterprise version only)Role-based access controlno

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