DBMS > Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. KeyDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. KeyDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#219	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.keydb.dev

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Atos Convergence Creators

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1999

2016

2019

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

LDAP

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

LDAP bind authentication

yes

simple password-based access control and ACL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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