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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Hypertable vs. OpenSearch vs. RavenDB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 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 distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

altibase.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

ravendb.net

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

ravendb.net/docs

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Altibase

Hypertable Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

1999

2009

2021

2010

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.5.0, January 2023

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (RQL)

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Role-based access control

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