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DBMS > Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Postgres-XL vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Postgres-XL vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

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NameMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.postgres-xl.orgsurrealdb.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftSurrealDB LtdTempoIQ
Initial release20122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20222012
Current release10 R1, October 2018v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCRust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal 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.
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 integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic lockingACID infoMVCCACIDno
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-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple authentication-based access control

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