DBMS > Altibase vs. Blueflood vs. Graphite vs. OpenSearch vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Blueflood vs. Graphite vs. OpenSearch vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

blueflood.io

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

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

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

graphite.readthedocs.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

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

Developer

Altibase

Rackspace

Chris Davis

Amazon Web Services

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1999

2013

2006

2021

2003

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Python

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

HTTP API
Sockets

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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

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