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DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenQM

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score58.10
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­redshiftcloud.google.com/­bigqueryazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAltibaseAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)GoogleMicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release19992012201020161993
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedhostedhostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesrestrictednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptTransact SQLyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)yesAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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