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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GeoMesa vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

www.geomesa.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

dbmx.net/tkrzw

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

CCRi and others

SAP

formerly Sybase

Mikio Hirabayashi

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1999

2014

1992

2020

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

17, July 2015

0.9.3, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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