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DBMS > Altibase vs. Quasardb vs. Spark SQL vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Quasardb vs. Spark SQL vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitealtibase.comquasar.aispark.apache.org/­sqlwww.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAltibasequasardbApache Software FoundationStardog-UnionApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19992009201420102014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.14.1, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20237.3.0, May 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ScalaJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnonoyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, utilizing Spark CorenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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