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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. MarkLogic

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Name	Altibase  Xexclude from comparison	Amazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparison	MarkLogic  Xexclude from comparison
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	Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Key-value store	Document store Native XML DBMS RDF store as of version 7 Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.93 Rank #181   Overall #88   Relational DBMS	Score 2.10 Rank #122   Overall #24   Key-value stores	Score 10.00 Rank #50   Overall #9   Document stores #1   Native XML DBMS #1   RDF stores #4   Search engines
Website	altibase.com	aws.amazon.com/­simpledb	www.marklogic.com
Technical documentation	github.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manuals	docs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledb	docs.marklogic.com
Developer	Altibase	Amazon	MarkLogic Corp.
Initial release	1999	2007	2001
Current release	v7.1.0.5.3, March 2021		9.0, 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source since February 2018	commercial	commercial restricted free version is available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no
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Implementation language	C++		C++
Server operating systems	AIX HP-UX Linux	hosted	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	schema-free Schema can be enforced
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no	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.	no		yes
Secondary indexes	yes	yes All columns are indexed automatically	yes
SQL Support of SQL	ANSI SQL-92	no	yes SQL92
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC Proprietary protocol	RESTful HTTP API	Java API Node.js Client API ODBC proprietary Optic API Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9 RESTful HTTP API SPARQL WebDAV XDBC XQuery XSLT
Supported programming languages	C C++ Java	.Net C C++ Erlang Java PHP Python Ruby Scala	C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	stored procedures and stored functions	no	yes via XQuery or JavaScript
Triggers	yes	no	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	yes	yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs
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	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application	ACID can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes		yes, with Range Indexes
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)	Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels
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