Table 3 The comparison of dynamic container technology and MDCS from the aspect of data type, create data schema, submit data query data and export data.

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Functions

MDCS

NMDMS:

Dynamic Container Technology

Data type

35 data types

10 streamlined data types

Table and array type are not supported

Table and array type are supported

Create schema

XML tree

Directory tree

a single layer can be displayed when creating a data schema

Complete data schema is displayed

Click to build data schema

Drag to build data schema

Submit data

Personalized data submission

Personalized and standardized data submission

Personal data publication

Project data publication with a rigorous data review process

Query data

Key words to query

Key words to query

SQL-like query

SQL-like query

Query data across schema based on knowledge graph

Export data

API

API

XML format

EXCEL, JSON formats