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DBMS > Altibase vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenQM

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeMultivalue DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#291  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgraphite.readthedocs.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAltibaseChris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release1999200620101993
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++PythonErlang
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Unix
hostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyno
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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