DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Cassandra vs. Lovefield vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Cassandra vs. Lovefield 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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cassandra.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

memgraph.com/docs

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Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

1999

2012

2008

2014

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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++

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Users, roles and permissions

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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