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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Fauna vs. Firebird vs. Manticore Search

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  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 ScioreFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbfauna.comwww.firebirdsql.orgmanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.fauna.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonFauna, Inc.Firebird FoundationManticore Software
Initial release1999200720142000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0.0, January 20246.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedhostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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.nonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functionsPSQLuser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera library
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
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
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)Identity management, authentication, and access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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