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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Badger vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TimesTen

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroragithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgercloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonDGraph LabsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19992015201720101998
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++GoErlang
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
GoC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptPL/SQL
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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