DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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 distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.graphengine.io

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Microsoft

Transwarp

Initial release

1999

2012

2010

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

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

.NET

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

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