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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Dgraph vs. MonetDB vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

dgraph.io

www.monetdb.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

dgraph.io/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

MonetDB BV

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

1999

2012

2016

2004

2013

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in SQL, C, R

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding via remote tables

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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