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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cachelot.io vs. GreptimeDB vs. Ingres

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

In-memory caching system

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Well established RDBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

cachelot.io

greptime.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

Technical documentation

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

docs.greptime.com

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

Altibase

Greptime Inc.

Actian Corporation

Initial release

1999

2015

2022

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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++

Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Memcached protocol

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Ingres Replicator

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

MVCC

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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