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System Properties Comparison MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Wide column store

Key-value store

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Score	6.50
Rank	#56	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#5	Search engines

Score	4.92
Rank	#73	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.marklogic.com

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

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.marklogic.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2001

2012

2013

Current release

11.0, December 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

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

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

optimistic locking

yes

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, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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