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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. CouchDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. gStore

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcouchdb.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseen.gstore.cn
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocs
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release19992012200520122016
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.3.3, December 20231.2, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptlimited functionality with using 'rules'yes
TriggersyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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