DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Citus vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LeanXcale vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Citus vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LeanXcale vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.89
Rank	#137	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	2.15
Rank	#123	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#283	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	29.85
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.citusdata.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.leanxcale.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.citusdata.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

LeanXcale

Microsoft

Initial release

2019

2010

2015

2014

Current release

8.1, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

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

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

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

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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