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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

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

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Altibase

Google

Initial release

1999

2013

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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