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DBMS > Altibase vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. ReductStore

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. ReductStore

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonReductStore  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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 HadoopWidely used in-process key-value storeDesigned 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 storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#384  Overall
#44  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­reductstore
www.reduct.store
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlwww.reduct.store/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseSpotifyHypertable Inc.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleReductStore LLC
Initial release19992014200919942023
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20230.9.8.11, March 201618.1.40, May 20201.9, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoBusiness Source License 1.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonono
Triggersyesnonoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replication
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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