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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Ingres vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. RRDtool

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSWell established RDBMSmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented 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
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreshughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.actian.com/­ingresorigodb.com/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAltibaseActian CorporationHughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et alTobias Oetiker
Initial release19991974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19942009 infounder the name LiveDB1999
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202311.2, May 20224.4, October 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CCC#C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsNumeric data only
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono infocan be achieved using .NETno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.NetC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesnoyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres ReplicatornoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCnoyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole based authorizationno

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