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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitealtibase.comhive.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpostgis.nettinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMicrosoft
Initial release19992012201520052009
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.1.3, April 2022V13.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousing Azure authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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