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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EDB Postgres vs. Hypertable vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EDB Postgres vs. Hypertable vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSWide column storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.enterprisedb.commanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.enterprisedb.com/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperAlibabaEnterpriseDBHypertable Inc.Manticore SoftwareMicrosoft
Initial release20162005200920172010
Current release14, December 20210.9.8.11, March 20166.0, February 2023V12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageCC++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.Can index from XMLyes
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Thrift
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
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.nouser defined functionsTransact SQL
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
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-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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