DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Ignite vs. JanusGraph vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Ignite vs. JanusGraph vs. Sphinx

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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.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Search engine

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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	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

ignite.apache.org

janusgraph.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

1999

2012

2015

2017

2001

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

0.6.3, February 2023

3.5.1, February 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 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

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

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

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

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

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

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

none

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)

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

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

Relationships in graphs

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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