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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. RocksDB vs. Ultipa

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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.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

altibase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

rocksdb.org

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Altibase

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Ultipa

Initial release

1999

2015

2013

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

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++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes

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)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

yes

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

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