DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FatDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FatDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. VelocityDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Alibaba

FatCloud

Kyligence, Inc.

Microsoft

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

1989

2011

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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