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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. GBase vs. Riak TS

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.gbase.cn

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Altibase

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1999

2008

2004

2015

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

Standard with numerous extensions

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

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