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DBMS > Altibase vs. Faircom DB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Faircom DB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.hawkular.orgjanusgraph.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperAltibaseFairCom CorporationCommunity supported by Red HatLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusMicrosoft
Initial release19991979201420172010
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023V12, November 20200.6.3, February 2023V12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++JavaJavaC++
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
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
HTTP RESTJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noyesTransact SQL
Triggersyesyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)
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).selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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