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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Hypertable vs. MonetDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

www.monetdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Altibase

Hypertable Inc.

MonetDB BV

Mikio Hirabayashi

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1999

2009

2004

2020

2009

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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