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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Faircom DB vs. GridGain vs. Hive vs. JaguarDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignitedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.gridgain.comhive.apache.orgwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperAltibaseFairCom CorporationGridGain Systems, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release19991979200720122015
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023V12, November 2020GridGain 8.5.13.1.3, April 20223.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++Java, C++, .NetJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yes (replicated cache)selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accounts

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