DBMS > DataFS vs. Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

newdatabase.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

machbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

graphite.readthedocs.io

machbase.com/dbms

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Mobiland AG

Chris Davis

Machbase

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2018

2006

2013

2014

2011

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

V8.0, August 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

JSON types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

HTTP API
Sockets

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

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

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

simple password-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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