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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BoltDB vs. Hypertable vs. TypeDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn embedded key-value store for Go.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­bolttypedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualstypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseHypertable Inc.Vaticle
Initial release1999201320092016
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20230.9.8.11, March 20162.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
C++ API
Thrift
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
GoC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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AltibaseBoltDBHypertableTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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