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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BigObject vs. InfluxDB vs. openGauss vs. Riak KV

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.combigobject.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.bigobject.iodocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAltibaseBigObject, Inc.Huawei and openGauss communityOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release19992015201320192009
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.7.6, April 20243.0, March 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC, C++, JavaErlang
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageANSI SQL 2011no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsLuanoyesErlang
Triggersyesnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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