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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Hypertable vs. Quasardb vs. Trino vs. Vertica

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  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 RDBMSAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQLCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comquasar.aitrino.iowww.vertica.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdoc.quasar.ai/­mastertrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
vertica.com/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperAltibaseHypertable Inc.quasardbTrino Software FoundationOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release1999200920092012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL2005
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20230.9.8.11, March 20163.14.1, January 202412.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Starburst Galaxy offers a feature-rich user interface to connect all your data sources, manage your Trino clusters, and query your data.
Implementation languageC++C++C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infowith tagsdepending on connected data-sourceNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL-like query languageyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoyes, depending on connected data-sourceyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyesnononoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingdepending on connected data-sourcehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replication with selectable replication factordepending on connected data-sourceMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integrationnono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-sourceImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDdepending on connected data-sourceACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDBdepending on connected data-sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailSQL standard access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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AltibaseHypertableQuasardbTrinoVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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