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DBMS > Altibase vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. ReductStore

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. ReductStore

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonReductStore  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSTime 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 HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDesigned 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 DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#384  Overall
#44  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­reductstore
www.reduct.store
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.reduct.store/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseSpotifyHypertable Inc.Circonus LLC.ReductStore LLC
Initial release19992014200920172023
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20230.9.8.11, March 2016V0.10.20, January 20181.9, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoBusiness Source License 1.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C and C++C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoyes, in Lua
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor on file system levelconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
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-standardnono

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