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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Infobright vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Infobright vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. VoltDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 frontendDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorekairosdb.github.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAlibabaIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.MicrosoftVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20162005201320102010
Current release1.2.2, November 2018V1211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageCJavaC++Java, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
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
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoTransact SQLJava
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with always 3 replicas availableMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiessimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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