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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Pinecone vs. Stardog vs. TigerGraph vs. VelocityDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelWide column storeVector DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.pinecone.iowww.stardog.comwww.tigergraph.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.stardog.comdocs.tigergraph.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperMicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncStardog-UnionVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20122019201020172011
Current release7.3.0, May 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesyesyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServerSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Python.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayesno
Triggersnoyes infovia event handlersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic lockingACIDACIDACID
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.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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