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DBMS > Altibase vs. Kinetica vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Kinetica vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB vs. Transbase

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.kinetica.comspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.kinetica.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAltibaseKineticaApache Software FoundationByteDance, originally TerarkTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19992012201420161987
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.1, August 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++ScalaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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