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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Faircom DB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. JanusGraph vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#278	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

altibase.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.postgresql.fastware.com

janusgraph.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

docs.janusgraph.org

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Altibase

FairCom Corporation

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1999

1979

2017

2021

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

V12, November 2020

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

0.6.3, February 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Clojure
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

partitioning by range, list and by hash

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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