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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Primary database model

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	2.89
Rank	#103	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

cloud.google.com/spanner

www.hawkular.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Altibase

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1999

2017

2014

1991

2013

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.7

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

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

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

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)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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