DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Altibase vs. OpenTSDB vs. Realm vs. SiteWhere vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. OpenTSDB vs. Realm vs. SiteWhere vs. VoltDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comopentsdb.netrealm.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAltibasecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SiteWhereVoltDB Inc.
Initial release19992011201420102010
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoLGPLOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nononoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP RESTJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryJava
Triggersyesnoyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBasenoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
AltibaseOpenTSDBRealmSiteWhereVoltDB
DB-Engines blog posts

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Altibase is Adopted for Presence Service to Provide User Information and Online Presence
8 April 2019, PR Newswire

Open-source DBMS becoming battleground of public cloud
17 May 2022, Etnews

In-memory OLAP Database Market Is Booming (CAGR of 24.95%) Worldwide | Terracotta, Altibase, Kognitio, Mcobject ...
26 October 2018, openPR

South Korean company to provide database solution to Mobicom
10 April 2020, UB Post

In-Memory Database Market Size, Share, Trends and Forecast Analysis by Kognitio Ltd., Datastax, VoltDB, ENEA ...
27 July 2018, openPR

provided by Google News

Comparing Different Time-Series Databases
10 February 2022, hackernoon.com

Brain Monitoring with Kafka, OpenTSDB, and Grafana
5 August 2016, KDnuggets

MapR to help admins peer into dense Hadoop clusters
28 June 2016, SiliconANGLE News

LogicMonitor Rolls a Time Series Database for Finer-Grain Reporting
1 June 2016, The New Stack

provided by Google News

MongoDB aims to unify developer experience with launch of MongoDB Cloud
9 June 2020, diginomica

Is Swift the Future of Server-side Development?
12 September 2017, Solutions Review

Here are the winners of Nordic Startup Awards
31 May 2016, EU-Startups

Kotlin Programming Language Will Surpass Java On Android Next Year
15 October 2017, Fossbytes

Java Synthetic Methods — What are these? | by Vaibhav Singh
27 February 2021, DataDrivenInvestor

provided by Google News

SiteWhere: An open platform for connected devices
11 July 2017, Open Source For You

11 Best Open source IoT Platforms To Develop Smart Projects
9 March 2023, H2S Media

provided by Google News

Unveiling Volt Active Data's game-changing approach to limitless app performance
16 October 2023, YourStory

 VoltDB Launches Active(N) Lossless Cross Data Center Replication
31 August 2021, PR Newswire

VoltDB Turns to Real-Time Analytics with NewSQL Database
30 January 2014, Datanami

VoltDB Upgrades Power, Security of Its In-Memory Database
1 February 2017, eWeek

VoltDB Adds Geospatial Support, Cross-Site Replication
28 January 2016, The New Stack

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

SingleStore logo

The database to transact, analyze and contextualize your data in real time.
Try it today.

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Present your product here