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DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Spark SQL

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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 StorageSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.00
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.org/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation
Initial release1999200720122014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.20.3, January 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceno
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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