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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenQM vs. Realm

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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	3.55
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

realm.io

Technical documentation

realm.io/docs

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

1999

2012

1993

2014

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes

none

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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