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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Ignite vs. Immudb vs. Oracle Coherence

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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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

ignite.apache.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.immudb.io

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Codenotary

Oracle

Initial release

1999

2012

2015

2020

2007

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

1.2.3, April 2022

14.1, 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

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like syntax

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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