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DBMS > Altibase vs. Cachelot.io vs. GBase vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cachelot.io vs. GBase vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  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 RDBMSIn-memory caching systemWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeEvent Store
Time 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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comcachelot.iowww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAltibaseGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Hypertable Inc.IBM
Initial release19992015200420092017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c0.9.8.11, March 20162.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C, Java, PythonC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Memcached protocolADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesselectable replication factor on file system levelActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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