DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. CrateDB vs. InterSystems IRIS

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. CrateDB vs. InterSystems IRIS

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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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Distributed Database based on Lucene

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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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	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.73
Rank	#224	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

cratedb.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

cratedb.com/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

DGraph Labs

Crate

InterSystems

Initial release

1999

2012

2017

2013

2018

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2023.3, June 2023

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 2.0

Open Source

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Source-replica replication

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

none

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

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)

rights management via user accounts

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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