DBMS > Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Trino

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.10
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.bigchaindb.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

trino.io

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Altibase

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

1999

2016

2013

1993

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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