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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Pinot vs. Cassandra

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write access
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbaws.amazon.com/­redshiftpinot.apache.orgcassandra.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.pinot.apache.orgcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latest
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by Facebook
Initial release19992012201220152008
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.0, September 20234.1.3, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedhostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
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 indexesyesyesrestrictedrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solution
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like query languageSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBCProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functions infoin Pythonno
Triggersyesyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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