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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. GridDB vs. mSQL vs. TimesTen

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DatamSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgriddb.nethughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.griddb.netdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonToshiba CorporationHughes TechnologiesOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19992012201319941998
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.1, August 20224.4, October 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes
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 indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnononoPL/SQL
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at container levelnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AltibaseAmazon CloudSearchGridDBmSQL infoMini SQLTimesTen
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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