DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EJDB vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EJDB vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.exasol.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Softmotions

Exasol

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2000

2012

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

in-process shared library

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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