DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

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Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.55
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Alibaba

BaseX GmbH

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2007

2010

2012

Current release

11.2, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

multiple readers, single writer

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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