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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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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	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

iotdb.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Atos Convergence Creators

Initial release

1999

2012

2018

2016

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.1.0, April 2023

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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 (>= 1.8)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native API

LDAP

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

All languages with LDAP bindings

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

cell division

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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)

yes

LDAP bind authentication

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