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DBMS > Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MonetDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. Trafodion vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MonetDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. Trafodion vs. Transbase

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NameMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.monetdb.orgtrafodion.apache.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperMicrosoftMonetDB BVTeradataApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122004200520141987
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20232.3.0, February 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++, JavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoin Aster File Storenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, RR packagesJava Stored Proceduresyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesShardingSharding
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 statusyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.yes, via HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic lockingACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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