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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSearch engineObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebigobject.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchobjectbox.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.bigobject.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.MicrosoftObjectBox Limited
Initial release2016201520152017
Current releaseV1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoyes infousing Azure authenticationyes
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