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  • Do clients choose Altibase over Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and others?

    Yes. Clients have consistently chosen Altibase over Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and others. Altibase has replaced many traditional on-disk databases in various industries that require real time solutions since 1999. Altibase now has over 700 global enterprise clients including 22 Fortune Global 500 companies with thousands of mission-critical deployments worldwide.Why Do Clients Choose Altibase over Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and Others?Product maturity rich with function and featureAltibase provides cutting-edge scale-out technology with advanced sharding capabilitiesAltibase's subscription fees are flexible and competitive27 years’ accumulated know-how of dealing with over 8,000 mission-critical use casesWhy Altibase?Track record of successful deployments with enterprise customersAbility to utilize in-memory and disk-resident capabilities using a single productReliable, superior product performance, and lower TCOOver 27 years of legendary support and high customer satisfaction scoresAltibase Retention Rate:Over 90% of Altibase’s clients have renewed maintenance/upgrade contracts in the last 21 years.

  • Where can I download Altibase?

    You can download Altibase on Download at our homepage. The installation files posted on Download is a release through the Quality Assurance process of Altibase.Once Altibase customer enters into Altibase Subscription Agreement, the customer can get Altibase support services.

  • How do I get patches and updates for Altibase?

    Altibase uploads patches and updates periodically on Free Download. Only the customers with Altibase Subscription Agreement can get emergency patches and updates.

  • Does Altibase produce a quick ROI for its clients?

    Altibase Helps Clients Save Money QuicklyIts subscription fees are flexible and competitive.Altibase’s hybrid architecture eliminates the need to purchase an in-memory database and an on-disk database separately .DBA costs are reduced through Altibase’s compatibility with industry standard programming languages, drivers and interfaces.Data management strategies are future-proofed immediately by eliminating the need to upgrade database software.Cost reduction in HardwareAltibase reduces hardware costs as Altibase with its in-memory capabilities allows for better performance on equivalent servers and hardware than disk-resident databases.Altibase reduces CPU load by 3 to 5 times on average, even 20 times in extreme cases. Fewer servers mean less power consumption, maintenance expenditures, points of failure, and future sunk costs.With Altibase’s sharding, you can optimize and economize on your scaling-related expenditures instead of spending a huge sum on H/W addition and upgrade such as expensive servers.With Altibase’s sharding, you can add as many commodity/cheap servers as necessary without experiencing coordinator-related performance degradation.It is easy and cost-effective to adopt Altibase’s sharding as it does not require any changes to your existing applications if your systems are built on relational databases.Migration EfficiencyAltibase’s migration process uses less labor and requires less time than its competitors. By eliminating the additional cost required to combine dual engines (in-memory + on-disk), enterprises start saving immediately.Altibase has a quality assurance process that prevents errors and data duplication.No reliance on expensive 3rd party solutions, which translates into cost savings.Automated tools ensure accuracy for expeditious data migration. The process takes about one day per TB of data. If your system can handle the parallel processing, the migration can handle about 4 TB per day.

  • How is Altibase different from Columnar Database?

    Columnar DB guarantees fast performance in tasks such as simple search, but it is difficult to develop because it does not support SQL. In addition, Columnar DB does not guarantee data processing integrity (Transaction ACID support). Because of all these reasons, there is a limit to its use in the core task of the enterprise.Classification  Altibase Columnar  Data Store High-speed data store using memory is possible when inserting data  Store in disk storage and then sync to memory, or, store in memory and then sync to disk storagePerformance degradation occurs when a LOCK occurs at the time of synchronization Data Loading When DBMS starts, all data is loaded into memory, and parallel loading is used to reduce loading time When DBMS starts, defined column values are loaded in memory DML All the DMLs are executed in memory, ensuring high-performance transactions  As the transaction processing unit of DML is ROW-based, performance degradation occurs due to the agent for storing changes in columns Select All the data is in memoryWhen selecting, search only in memory The speed of select statement is different according to the business task 

  • How does Altibase enhance data security?

    Data security can only be achieved by a holistic approach. Altibase provides strict data security covering all aspects of its products with the extreme speed of the in-memory database. Representative data security-related features are its secure communication support, Audit SQL support, and standard integration method support for 3rd party encryption solutions. Altibase also provides various additional security-related features such as policy-based password management, IP access control, object privileges, and the list goes on.Secure Communication:Altibase adopts SSL/TLS using symmetric-key algorithms to encrypt/decrypt data, and asymmetric cryptography to safely exchange the shared key and public/private key pair for authentication.Altibase uses the TLS 1.0 protocol supported by the OpenSSL library.Altibase supports server-only authentication and mutual authentication.Altibase provides the JDBC and ODBC interfaces for SSL connection, which is currentlysupported only in Linux.Audit SQL:Auditing tracks specific statements or all statements being executed on the Altibase server in real time and records their information.Auditing conditions can be configured with SQL statements.Standard Integration Method for 3rd Party Encryption Solutions:Altibase provides external procedure, function-based index and instead of trigger.Altibase enables the integration of all 3rd party encryption solutions.

  • Is it safe to use Altibase with regard to Intellectual Property?

    Yes. It is completely safe to use all Altibase products as they are 100% free of any IP infringement. You are very well protected when using Altibase.Intellectual property is an increasingly important area of concern when making a software purchase. If you are selling/using a software solution that uses an infringing database, you may be liable for the financial consequences even if the IP infringement does not reside within your application.Many companies try to get around this by signing contracts with database companies ensuring that they are not liable for any infringements on the part of their database vendors. But the fact remains that customers should always exercise due diligence in making sure that their products are completely free of any IP infringement. In today’s litigious society, the risks are far too high to ignore this facet of vendor selection.Is it dangerous to purchase a database from companies that have IP infringement?Yes. Purchasing software from a company that has stolen IP from anywhere including snippets of code will expose your company to litigation and catastrophic financial consequences.Are large database vendors involved in IP infringement cases?Yes. There are many leading database vendors that have been and are currently involved in IP infringement cases.

  • Which platforms does Altibase support?

    Platforms and SpecificationsAltibase 8.1 : Supported PlatformOSCPUOS VersionNotesAIXPowerPC, 64bit6.1 TL3 6.1 TL9 7.1 ~HP-UXIA64, 64bit11.31LinuxX86, 64bitRedhat 6.x ~ CentOS 6.8 ~ Oracle Linux 6.5 ~glibc(2.12~)LinuxPower7,8, 64bitRedhat 6.5 ~glibc(2.12~), big endianLinuxPower8(LE), 64bitRedhat 7.2glibc(2.12~), little endianWindowsx86, 64bitWindows Server 2008~Windows Server 2022Windwos Server 2025Windows 10Windows 11 LinuxOneIBM Telum, 64bitRedhat 6.x~ , Ubuntu  glibc(2.12~)

  • Can the same performance be achieved by using cache solutions?

    No. Caching is a good strategy to use when specific query results need to be returned quickly. However, using this method does not give full flexibility for increasing performance amongst all data and operations:Caching data does not give quick performance for every SELECT query; only the ones that an algorithm determines. Additionally, caching is only useful for common read operations; any DML (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) that is executed will run at low, disk-based speeds. Altibase can store all data in-memory, so any query that is run on the data will perform at cached speeds, including DML.Unlike many commercial caching solutions, Altibase does not lose data when shut down or restarted. Altibase adheres to full, real time ACID compliance that guarantees data integrity. Altibase’s persistent cache is a default setting, and can recover all data without any issues.Altibase provides MOVE technology, allowing DBAs to decide which sets of data should be high-speed and which are designated for long-term storage.Altibase is a single database solution that meets all needs in any use case. With persistent cache in- memory and on-disk in a single database, flexibility and data integrity are given. With Altibase, there is no need to purchase a caching solution additionally.Altibase has competed with other cache solutions. The following case study includes related stories.Global Cloud Authentication Service – Samsung Electronics : Altibase is used instead of Oracle Coherence.

  • Does Altibase support Business Intelligence (BI) solutions?

    Yes. Altibase can be used for Data Marts in BI solutions for analytical purposes. Altibase is not ideal for data warehouses because the size of data warehouses often exceeds the maximum possible storage capacity of RAM today.Altibase has competed with other in-memory databases. The following case studies include related stories.Yield Management System – Samsung Electronics : TIBCO Spotfire is integrated with Altibase as a business intelligence tool for this task.Business Intelligence System – Dongwon F&B : Collect and analyze data from the ERP system.BI SolutionAltibase can store and process fact and dimension tables of Data Marts in real time so that  users can query critical business information when they need it.[i]Altibase OLAP FunctionsCategoryFunctionDescriptionAggregationAVGAverage value of the groupCOUNTCount of the groupMAXMaximum value of the groupMINMinimum value of the groupSTDDEVStandard deviation of the groupSUMSum of the groupVARIANCEVariance of the groupRankingRANKRanking of the groupDENSE_RANKRanking of the result set according to groupROW_NUMBERUnique serial number according to query result setWindowsFIRST_VALUEThe value of the first rowLAST_VALUEThe value of the last rowNTH_VALUEThe value of the offset rowFIRST_VALUE_IGNORE_NULLSNon-null value, the value of the first rowLAST_VALUE_IGNORE_NULLSNon-null value, the value of the last rowNTH_VALUE_IGNORE_NULLSNon-null value, the value of the offset rowGrouping SetROLLUPExtended group by functionCUBEMulti dimensional analytics function [i] A fact table is the central table in a star schema of a Data Mart and a dimension table is a collection of reference information about a measurable event.

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