DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. STSdb vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. STSdb vs. Tarantool

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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

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1999

2012

2016

2011

2008

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

4.0.8, September 2015

2.10.0, May 2022

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

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

.NET Client API

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

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

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

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)

LDAP bind authentication

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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