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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. NuoDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Spatial extension of H2

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.h2gis.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

doc.nuodb.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Altibase

Esgyn

CNRS

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1999

2015

2013

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

Java, SQL

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on H2

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

simple password-based access control

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