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DBMS > Altibase vs. Citus vs. Drizzle vs. Manticore Search vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Citus vs. Drizzle vs. Manticore Search vs. Realm

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.citusdata.commanticoresearch.comrealm.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.citusdata.commanual.manticoresearch.comrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerManticore SoftwareRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release19992010200820172014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20238.1, December 20187.2.4, September 20126.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PHP
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nouser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoyes

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