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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle vs. SwayDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseWidely used RDBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1236.29
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serveropentsdb.netwww.oracle.com/­databaseswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serveropentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database
DeveloperAltibaseMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOracleSimer Plaha
Initial release19991989201119802018
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023SQL Server 2022, November 202223c, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC and C++Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesno
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavanoPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding infobased on HBaseSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocan be realized in PL/SQLno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedAtomic execution of operations
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.yesyesnoyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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