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DBMS > Altibase vs. Derby vs. KeyDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Derby vs. KeyDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comdb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.keydb.devsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software FoundationEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.SiteWhereDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release19991997201920102000
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202310.17.1.0, November 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++JavaC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined schemeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search modulenoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoHTTP RESTADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsJava Stored ProceduresLuano
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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