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DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. RDF4J

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 ScioreOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.00
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#288  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financerdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release19992007201220132004
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202329.0.1, April 202415585
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes
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 automaticallyyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoyesyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
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 applicationnonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
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)RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemno

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