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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Teradata

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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

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	2.18
Rank	#122	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	47.84
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.bigchaindb.com

www.enterprisedb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Alibaba

EnterpriseDB

Microsoft

Teradata

Initial release

2016

2005

2010

1984

Current release

14, December 2021

V12

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Transact SQL

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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