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

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Name

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.00
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2005

2010

2014

Current release

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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