DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. gStore vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. gStore vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cloud.google.com/bigtable

en.gstore.cn

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

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

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

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2015

2016

1989

2005

Current release

1.2, November 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

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

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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