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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	4.49
Rank	#79	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

swaydb.simer.au

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Altibase

Google

Simer Plaha

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1999

2008

2018

1998

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

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++

Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

using Google App Engine

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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