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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. MySQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Widely used open source RDBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#274	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

pinot.apache.org

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.pinot.apache.org

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

1999

2007

2015

1995

1993

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.0.0, September 2023

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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