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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. searchxml

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Name	Alibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparison	Atos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison	searchxml  Xexclude from comparison
		This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
Description	A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access	Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks	A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets	DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database model	Wide column store	Document store Key-value store	Wide column store	Native XML DBMS Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.31 Rank #297   Overall #11   Wide column stores		Score 4.04 Rank #77   Overall #6   Wide column stores	Score 0.03 Rank #390   Overall #7   Native XML DBMS #24   Search engines
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-store	atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables	www.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestore			www.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Developer	Alibaba	Atos Convergence Creators	Microsoft	informationpartners gmbh
Initial release	2016	2016	2012	2015
Current release		1703		1.0
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	yes	no
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Implementation language		Java		C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	hosted	Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	Schema and schema-less with LDAP views	schema-free	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	optional	yes	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.	no	yes	no	yes
Secondary indexes	no	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	no	no
APIs and other access methods	HTTP API	LDAP	RESTful HTTP API	RESTful HTTP API WebDAV XQuery XSLT
Supported programming languages	Java Python	All languages with LDAP bindings	.Net C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby	C++ most other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	no	yes on the application server
Triggers	no	yes	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding cell division	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	yes	yes implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.	yes sychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no		no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	Atomic single-row operations	Atomic execution of specific operations	optimistic locking	multiple readers, single writer
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no	no
User concepts Access control	Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens	LDAP bind authentication	Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures	Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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