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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. FatDB vs. OushuDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DGraph Labs

FatCloud

Oushu

Initial release

1999

2012

2017

2012

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Via inetgration in SQL Server

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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