DBMS > Aerospike vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrigoDB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrigoDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.16
Rank	#63	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

origodb.com

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

origodb.com/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

2006

Current release

7.1, May 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

atomic operations within a document possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Aerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Competitive advantages

Optimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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News

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25 June 2024

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5 June 2024

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