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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. TerarkDB

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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 key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

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Score	0.95
Rank	#181	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	87.26
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#357	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/Terark/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/Terark/terarkdb/wiki

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Terark

Initial release

1999

2012

2016

Current release

v7.1.0.5.3, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

since February 2018

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

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)

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