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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  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 accessA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelWide column storeWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.monetdb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAlibabaMicrosoftMonetDB BVTobias Oetiker8Kdata
Initial release20162012200419992016
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes 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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsoptimistic lockingACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles

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