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DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BaseX vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BaseX vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­redshiftbasex.orgbigobject.iowww.exasol.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.basex.orgdocs.bigobject.iowww.exasol.com/­resources
DeveloperAltibaseAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)BaseX GmbHBigObject, Inc.Exasol
Initial release19992012200720152000
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202310.7, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
Lua
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions infoin PythonyesLuauser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes infovia eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writernoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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