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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

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

Score	3.75
Rank	#88	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Social network pages

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2010

2017

2014

1984

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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 can be defined per database

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and groups

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Licensing and pricing models

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