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DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  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 ScioreBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonQdrant
Initial release199920072014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2021
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CRust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, 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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesCollection-level replication
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authentication

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