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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. KeyDB vs. SpaceTime vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.mireo.com/spacetime

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.keydb.dev

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Altibase

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Mireo

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1999

2019

2020

2001

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

RESTful HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

simple password-based access control and ACL

yes

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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