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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. HBase vs. Milvus vs. VoltDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.combangdb.comhbase.apache.orgmilvus.iowww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.bangdb.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAltibaseSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetVoltDB Inc.
Initial release19992012200820192010
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20212.3.4, January 20212.4.4, May 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++JavaC++, GoJava, C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsoptions to bring your own types, AVROVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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 indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL like support with command line toolnonoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoJava
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
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)Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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