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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDF4J

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRDF store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.datomic.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectGoogleMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20162012201420152004
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232.1.12, February 2017V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
Java
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnonoyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnonoyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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