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DBMS > Databend vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PostGIS

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NameDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
github.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.databend.comgraphite.readthedocs.iolearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperDatabend LabsChris DavisMicrosoft
Initial release2021200620142005
Current release1.0.59, April 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageRustPythonC
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
macOS
Linux
Unix
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infoJSON typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptuser defined functions
TriggersnonoJavaScriptyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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