DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. MySQL vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. MySQL vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Widely used open source RDBMS

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.bigchaindb.com

www.mysql.com

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

1999

2012

2016

1995

2018

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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