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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Axibase vs. FatDB vs. GridDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegriddb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.griddb.net
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonAxibase CorporationFatCloudToshiba Corporation
Initial release19992012201320122013
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023155855.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC#C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinuxWindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL-like query languageno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesyes infovia applicationsno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infovia applicationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID at container level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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AltibaseAmazon CloudSearchAxibaseFatDBGridDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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