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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Google BigQuery vs. GridDB vs. Hawkular Metrics

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

griddb.net

www.hawkular.org

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.griddb.net

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Altibase

Google

Toshiba Corporation

Community supported by Red Hat

Initial release

1999

2010

2013

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.1, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

yes

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID at container level

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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