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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TypeDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.66
Rank	#97	Overall
	#7	Wide column stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#229	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	Object oriented DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#161	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

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

typedb.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

typedb.com/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Microsoft

Vaticle

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2010

Current release

2.28.3, June 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

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

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

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.

Synchronous replication via raft

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

substituted by the relationship feature

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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