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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. CockroachDB vs. OrientDB vs. Splice Machine

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.cockroachlabs.comorientdb.orgsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAltibaseCockroach LabsOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSplice Machine
Initial release1999201520102014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202324.1.0, May 20243.2.29, March 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++GoJavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLSQL-like query language, no joinsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoJava, Javascriptyes infoJava
TriggersyesnoHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationship in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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