DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MonetDB vs. Newts vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MonetDB vs. Newts vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.15
Rank	#69	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

drill.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.monetdb.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

OpenNMS Group

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2012

2014

2004

2014

2015

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes, Lua

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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