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

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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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

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

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

1989

1984

2019

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

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)

Clojure
Java

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

none

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

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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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