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DBMS > Altibase vs. FoundationDB vs. HarperDB vs. MySQL vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. FoundationDB vs. HarperDB vs. MySQL vs. RRDtool

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Widely used open source RDBMSIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APITime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.harperdb.iowww.mysql.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdev.mysql.com/­docoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAltibaseFoundationDBHarperDBOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunTobias Oetiker
Initial release19992013201719951999
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20236.2.28, November 20203.1, August 20218.4.0, April 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Node.jsC and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasdynamic schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyes infoJSON data typesyesNumeric data only
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92supported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like data manipulation statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsin SQL-layer onlyCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterhorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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