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DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Lovefield vs. Memgraph vs. Vitess

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

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 Neo4jScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmemgraph.comvitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmemgraph.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonGoogleMemgraph LtdThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release19992012201420172013
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.1.12, February 201715.0.2, December 2022
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 Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC and C++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes inforelationships in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoUsers, roles and permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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AltibaseAmazon CloudSearchLovefieldMemgraphVitess
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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