DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Axibase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Axibase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RocksDB

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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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1999

2007

2013

2012

2013

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15585

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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.

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

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

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

optimistic locking

yes

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)

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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