DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SingleStore vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SingleStore vs. STSdb

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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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector 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	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

rethinkdb.com

www.singlestore.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SingleStore Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1999

2012

2009

2013

2011

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

8.5, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

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 Version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

users and table-level permissions

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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