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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BoltDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/boltdb/bolt

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

Initial release

1999

2012

2013

2015

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

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

hosted

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

yes

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

yes

using Azure authentication

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