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DBMS > Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. SpaceTime vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. SpaceTime vs. TerarkDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.00
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.kinetica.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.kinetica.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAltibaseDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerKineticaMireoByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release19992008201220202016
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.2.4, September 20127.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C, C++C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesno

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