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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. Faircom DB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineNative XML DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbasex.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-db
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.basex.orgdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonBaseX GmbHFairCom Corporation
Initial release1999201220071979
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202311.0, June 2024V12, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaANSI C, C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infoXQuery supports typesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++
Triggersyesnoyes infovia eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writertunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory
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 signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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