DBMS > Altibase vs. Graphite vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Graphite vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenSearch

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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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector 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	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

altibase.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

ignite.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Altibase

Chris Davis

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1999

2006

2015

2021

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Python

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Sockets

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

using Azure authentication

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