DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.kinetica.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.kinetica.com

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kinetica

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

1999

2012

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

7.1, August 2021

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

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