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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MonetDB vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL

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NameMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.monetdb.orgwww.pinecone.iowww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperMicrosoftMonetDB BVPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2012200420192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageCC
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Python.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic lockingACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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