DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Geode vs. JanusGraph

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Geode vs. JanusGraph

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

geode.apache.org

janusgraph.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Initial release

1999

2012

2007

2002

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.1, February 2017

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights per client and object definable

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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