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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Ignite vs. Linter vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

RDBMS for high security requirements

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

ignite.apache.org

linter.ru

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

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

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

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

relex.ru

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2015

1990

1989

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

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

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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