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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Lovefield vs. Memgraph vs. QuestDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmemgraph.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmemgraph.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonGoogleMemgraph LtdQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release19992012201420172014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
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 indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonono
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoUsers, roles and permissions
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AltibaseAmazon CloudSearchLovefieldMemgraphQuestDB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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