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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Realm vs. SiteWhere vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.55
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

realm.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

realm.io/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SiteWhere

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2014

2010

1998

Current release

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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