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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. STSdb vs. VoltDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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 ScioreKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memoryWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.voltdb.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.voltdb.comwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonSTS Soft SCVoltDB Inc.Wakanda SAS
Initial release19992007201120102012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20234.0.8, September 201511.3, April 20222.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro EditionsOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C#Java, C++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedWindowsLinux
OS X infofor development
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoJavayes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored proceduresACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
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)noUsers and roles with access to stored proceduresyes

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