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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2007

2015

1989

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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