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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TypeDB vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

typedb.com

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

typedb.com/docs

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Microsoft

Vaticle

Ultipa

Initial release

2015

2012

2016

2019

Current release

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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 private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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