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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. ToroDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  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 accessElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.monetdb.orgnsdb.iogithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAlibabaMicrosoftMonetDB BV8Kdata
Initial release20162016200420172016
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CJava, ScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding via remote tablesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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