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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EXASOL vs. InfinityDB vs. LevelDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

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	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

www.exasol.com

boilerbay.com

github.com/google/leveldb

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

www.exasol.com/resources

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Altibase

Exasol

Boiler Bay Inc.

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1999

2000

2002

2011

2013

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

4.0

1.23, February 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined 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

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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