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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelWide column storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.geomesa.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAlibabaCCRi and othersMicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2016201420102018
Current release5.0.0, May 2024V1211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layerGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layeryes, with always 3 replicas availableJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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