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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph

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Score	1.44
Rank	#145	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	26.32
Rank	#27	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1322.93
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

altibase.com/resources/manuals

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Altibase

Oracle

Initial release

1999

2013

1980

Current release

7.1, July 2017

2.0.2, November 2020

19c, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

since February 2018

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

with the optional Oracle Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Since 1999, Altibase has served over 600 enterprise clients including 9 Fortune Global...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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