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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. DataFS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.bigchaindb.com

newdatabase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Alibaba

Mobiland AG

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2018

2016

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes

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

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

Windows-Profile

yes

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