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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GreptimeDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

greptime.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

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

docs.greptime.com

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Altibase

Greptime Inc.

Mireo

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1999

2022

2020

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C#
C++
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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