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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. MonetDB vs. Snowflake vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.monetdb.org

www.snowflake.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Altibase

Google

MonetDB BV

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1999

2015

2004

2014

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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