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DBMS > Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. chDB vs. Geode vs. HyperSQL

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. chDB vs. Geode vs. HyperSQL

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonchDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouseGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­chdb-io/­chdbgeode.apache.orghsqldb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdoc.chdb.iogeode.apache.org/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperAltibaseOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.
Initial release19992016202320022001
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.1, February 20172.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linuxserver-lessAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll 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 dateyesnoyesyes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)SQL-like query language (OQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsJava, SQL
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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