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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GigaSpaces vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen vs. XTDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
RDF store
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.gigaspaces.comterminusdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1www.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseGigaspaces TechnologiesDataChemist Ltd.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Juxt Ltd.
Initial release19992000201819982019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202315.5, September 202011.0.0, January 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)1.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .NetProlog, RustClojure
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)yeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesyesPL/SQLno
Triggersyesyes, event driven architectureyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingGraph Partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Journaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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