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DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonIBM
Initial release1999201220162017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++PythonC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyes
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factorActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
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 signaturesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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