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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Infobright vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Infobright vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Solr

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA multi-model DBMS and application serverDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasesolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.intersystems.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAlibabaIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.InterSystemsMicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162005199720102006
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020V129.5.0, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageCC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonoyesyesyes
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesTransact SQLJava plugins
Triggersnonoyesyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDACIDoptimistic locking
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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