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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PlanetScale vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

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

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.hawkular.org

planetscale.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

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

planetscale.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

PlanetScale

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1999

2008

2014

2020

2011

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, 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

Docker
Linux
macOS

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

using Google App Engine

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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