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DBMS > Altibase vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitealtibase.comquestdb.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAltibaseQuestDB Technology IncOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release1999201420092018
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.2.0, December 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlangProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL with time-series extensionsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoErlangyes
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infono "single point of failure"Graph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factorJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID for single-table writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak SecurityRole-based access control
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