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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Memgraph vs. SAP HANA

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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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

memgraph.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

memgraph.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Social network pages

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Memgraph Ltd

SAP

Initial release

1999

2007

2017

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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)

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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