DBMS > atoti vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. YDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.45
Rank	#253	Overall
	#13	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.82
Rank	#65	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

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

Score	0.39
Rank	#269	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

docs.datastax.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

ActiveViam

DataStax

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Yandex

Initial release

2011

2014

1993

2019

Current release

6.8, April 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

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

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Active-passive shard 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

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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Specific characteristics

DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenarios

Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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