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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. KairosDB vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

bangdb.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

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

docs.bangdb.com

kairosdb.github.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Altibase

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Oracle

Initial release

1999

2012

2013

1980

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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