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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Axibase vs. LokiJS

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.org/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonApache Software FoundationAxibase Corporation
Initial release19992007201220132014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.20.3, January 202315585
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynonoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functionsyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
nonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Depending on the underlying data sourceno

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