DBMS > Altibase vs. Graphite vs. HarperDB vs. MariaDB vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Graphite vs. HarperDB vs. MariaDB vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.harperdb.io

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.harperdb.io/docs

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Chris Davis

HarperDB

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1999

2006

2017

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2003

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.1, August 2021

11.3.2, February 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Python

Node.js

C and C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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