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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graphite vs. GridDB vs. Manticore Search

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  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 ScioreData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time 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
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgriddb.netmanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.griddb.netmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonChris DavisToshiba CorporationManticore Software
Initial release19992007200620132017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.1, August 20226.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++PythonC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampInt, 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.nononoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnononouser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnoneSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACID at container levelyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
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.yesyes
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 for users can be defined per databaseno
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AltibaseAmazon SimpleDBGraphiteGridDBManticore Search
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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