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System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.38
Rank	#279	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

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

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

brytlyt.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Brytlyt

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Percona

Initial release

2016

2010

2014

2015

Current release

5.0, August 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

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