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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. STSdb vs. TimescaleDB vs. Ultipa

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.timescale.comwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.timescale.comwww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperAltibaseSTS Soft SCTimescaleUltipa
Initial release1999201120172019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20234.0.8, September 20152.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C#C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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