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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. openGauss vs. RRDtool vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
oss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
oss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAltibaseHuawei and openGauss communityTobias OetikerDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release19992019199920182011
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.0, March 20221.8.0, 202211.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C, C++, JavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxHP-UX
Linux
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92ANSI SQL 2011noSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesnoyesno
TriggersyesyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)noneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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