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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. Tibero

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Name

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)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1999

2016

2013

2003

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Python

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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