DBMS > Altibase vs. Geode vs. Oracle vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Geode vs. Oracle vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Widely used RDBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

altibase.com

geode.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Altibase

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Oracle

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

1999

2002

1980

1987

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.1, February 2017

23c, September 2023

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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