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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GraphDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MonetDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GraphDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MonetDB vs. ToroDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelWide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.ontotext.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperAlibabaOntotextMicrosoftMonetDB BV8Kdata
Initial release20162000201220042016
Current release10.4, October 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnowell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoConstraint checkingnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDoptimistic lockingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 tokensDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMMicrosoft Azure Table StorageMonetDBToroDB
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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