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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Riak KV

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonIBMOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release1999201220172009
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.03.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesErlang
Triggersyesnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSActive-active shard replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
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 signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security

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