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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. etcd vs. jBASE vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A distributed reliable key-value store

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	7.05
Rank	#53	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

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

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Altibase

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

1999

1991

1995

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.4, August 2019

5.7

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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