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DBMS > Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. H2 vs. Kingbase vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. H2 vs. Kingbase vs. Manticore Search

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitealtibase.comwww.h2database.comwww.kingbase.com.cnmanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperAltibaseDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerThomas MuellerBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Manticore Software
Initial release19992008200519992017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.2.4, September 20122.2.220, July 2023V8.0, August 20216.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC and JavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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.nonoyesCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infowith proprietary extensionsyesStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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