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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
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with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.14
Rank	#159	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	53.44
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

altibase.com/resources/manuals

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Altibase

SAP

Initial release

1999

2010

Current release

v7.1.0.5.3, March 2021

2.0 SPS05 (June 26, 2020), June 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

since February 2018

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

Altibase is an enterprise grade open source DBMS . It allows for high performance...
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Competitive advantages

Since its inception, Altibase has been renowned for its in-memory capabilities. Altibase...
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Typical application scenarios

Altibase has been deployed for over 6000 mission-critical use cases that demand hundreds...
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Key customers

Since 1999, Altibase has served over 600 enterprise clients including 9 Fortune Global...
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Market metrics

Over 600 global enterprise clients including 8 Fortune Global 500 companies Over...
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Licensing and pricing models

No License Cost Altibase is an open source DBMS which includes its sharding Subscription...
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