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DBMS > Altibase vs. Citus vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Citus vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE vs. MonetDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.citusdata.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.citusdata.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAltibaseCommunity supported by Red HatRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)MonetDB BV
Initial release19992010201419912004
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20238.1, December 20185.7Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalyes
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 functionalitynoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
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.noyesyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyesyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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