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DBMS > Altibase vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. ReductStore

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. ReductStore

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonReductStore  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA 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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDesigned to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#384  Overall
#44  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comcloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­reductstore
www.reduct.store
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.reduct.store/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseGoogleSpotifyHypertable Inc.ReductStore LLC
Initial release19992017201420092023
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20230.9.8.11, March 20161.9, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoBusiness Source License 1.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yesselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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