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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Ehcache vs. OpenQM vs. Stardog

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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 ScioreA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.ehcache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsStardog-Union
Initial release19992007200919932010
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.10.0, March 20223.4-127.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
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.nonoyesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nononoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIJCacheGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoyesuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infoby using Terracotta Serveryesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes infoby using Terracotta ServeryesMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
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)noAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles

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