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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. Linter

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesRDBMS for high security requirements
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeode.apache.orglinter.ru
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegeode.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.relex.ru
Initial release19992012201220021990
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoSQL-like query language (OQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnolimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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