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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. KairosDB vs. NuoDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational 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
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storekairosdb.github.iodoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonIBMDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release19992012201720132013
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.01.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-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 indexednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesnoJava, SQL
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infobased on Cassandradata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSActive-active shard replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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