DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TDengine vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TDengine vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

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

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

typedb.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.tdengine.com

typedb.com/docs

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Vaticle

Initial release

2019

2010

2014

2019

2016

Current release

3.0, August 2022

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

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*

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document 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

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 for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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