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DBMS > Altibase vs. Datomic vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Datomic vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsHawkular 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 middleware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.datomic.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.datomic.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAltibaseCognitectGigaspaces TechnologiesCommunity supported by Red HatRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release19992012200020141991
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.6735, June 202315.5, September 20205.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ClojureJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptional
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infoTransaction Functionsyesnoyes
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyes, event driven architectureyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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