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DBMS > Altibase vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HBase

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvgeode.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablehbase.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apigeode.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAltibaseCloudflareOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GoogleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release19992018200220152008
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.1, February 20172.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnooptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL-like query language (OQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functionsnoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodeAtomic single-row operationsSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
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.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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