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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EDB Postgres vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EDB Postgres vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessThe 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.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.enterprisedb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorejanusgraph.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.enterprisedb.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperAlibabaEnterpriseDBGoogleLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusMicrosoft
Initial release20162005201720172010
Current release14, December 20210.6.3, February 2023V12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageCJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsyesTransact SQL
Triggersnoyesyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationyesyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflowyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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