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

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#102	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.hawkular.org

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Altibase

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

1999

2010

2014

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

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
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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, Cluster-wide transaction available

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)

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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