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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. AllegroGraph vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Yaacomo

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#324  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.03
Rank#199  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#131  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score30.39
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeallegrograph.comphoenix.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorefranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlphoenix.apache.orglearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-db
DeveloperAlibabaFranz Inc.Apache Software FoundationMicrosoftQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20162004201420142009
Current release8.0, December 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
hostedAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoJSON typesyes
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 infobulk load of XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBCDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functionsJavaScript
TriggersnoyesnoJavaScriptyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicewith FederationShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationwith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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