DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenSearch

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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.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Wide column store

Native XML DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

basex.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.basex.org

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

2007

2014

2021

Current release

10.7, August 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON 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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

JavaScript

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

Sharding

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

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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 rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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