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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Quasardb vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph

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NameMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databasePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesquasar.aitinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbTeradata
Initial release2012200920052009
Current release3.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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 infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesnoyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoR packagesno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic lockingACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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