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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  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 accessHigh performance Time Series DBMSA 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 storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument 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
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storekx.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorecode.kx.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAlibabaKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoftMonetDB BV8Kdata
Initial release20162000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201220042016
Current release3.6, May 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageqCJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'noyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)noyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
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 proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica 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 methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnooptimistic 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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensrights management via user accountsAccess 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 StoreKdbMicrosoft Azure Table StorageMonetDBToroDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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