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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. Valentina Server

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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 embedded key-value store for Go.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

dgraph.io

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

dgraph.io/docs

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1999

2012

2013

2016

1999

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.7.5

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

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

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

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Synchronous replication via 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

none

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

yes

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)

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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