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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Citus vs. Memgraph

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.citusdata.com

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.citusdata.com

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

1999

2012

2010

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

8.1, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Licensing and pricing models

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