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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelWide column storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesobjectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedApache Software Foundation
Initial release201220172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2012
Current release10 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++CJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.online/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic lockingACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Microsoft Azure Table StorageObjectBoxPostgres-XLPouchDB
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