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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. eXtremeDB vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.mcobject.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

McObject

Initial release

1999

2012

2001

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

8.2, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

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 and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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