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DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. OpenEdge vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. OpenEdge vs. SQL.JS

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 ScioreApplication development environment with integrated database management systemPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.progress.com/­openedgesql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonProgress Software CorporationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release1999200719842012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
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)Users and groupsno

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