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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.progress.com/openedge

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2016

1989

1984

2011

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Users and groups

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