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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

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

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

newdatabase.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

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

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

Developer

Mobiland AG

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2008

2012

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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 query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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