DBMS > Altibase vs. DuckDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. DuckDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
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Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

duckdb.org

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

duckdb.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Altibase

Kyligence, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1999

2018

2016

2013

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.0.0, June 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

server-less

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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