DBMS > Altibase vs. FatDB vs. Spark SQL vs. XTDB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. FatDB vs. Spark SQL vs. XTDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.95
Rank	#181	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	23.72
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#357	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Score	3.52
Rank	#97	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
xtdb.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

xtdb.com/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Altibase

FatCloud

Apache Software Foundation

Juxt Ltd.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

1999

2012

2014

2019

2017

Current release

v7.1.0.5.3, March 2021

3.3.0, June 2022

1.19, September 2021

2.14, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

since February 2018

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Clojure

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java
Python
R
Scala

Clojure
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

via applications

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

none

yes, each node contains all data

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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
Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

yes

based on RocksDB

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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