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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Axibase

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Name

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.44
Rank	#145	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	2.53
Rank	#111	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.30
Rank	#258	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

axibase.com/products/axibase-time-series-database

Technical documentation

altibase.com/resources/manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/axibase/atsd

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

Initial release

1999

2007

2013

Current release

7.1, July 2017

15585

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

since February 2018

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

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++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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)

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Specific characteristics

Altibase is an enterprise grade open source DBMS . It allows for high performance...
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Competitive advantages

Since its inception, Altibase has been renowned for its in-memory capabilities. Altibase...
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Typical application scenarios

Altibase has been deployed for over 6000 mission-critical use cases that demand hundreds...
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Key customers

Since 1999, Altibase has served over 600 enterprise clients including 9 Fortune Global...
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Market metrics

Over 600 global enterprise clients including 8 Fortune Global 500 companies Over...
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Licensing and pricing models

No License Cost Altibase is an open source DBMS which includes its sharding Subscription...
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