DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

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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

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

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	0.29
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	7.56
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Cloudflare

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1999

2012

2018

2000

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 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

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

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

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

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

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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