DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Initial release

1999

2019

2012

2010

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

atomic operations within a document possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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