DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. XTDB

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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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Wide column store

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

basex.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.basex.org

docs.heavy.ai

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

BaseX GmbH

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2007

2016

2014

2019

Current release

10.7, August 2023

5.10, January 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON types

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Round robin

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

none

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session 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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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