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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. ToroDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/torodb/server

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

8Kdata

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1999

2007

2016

1999

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

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

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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)

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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