DBMS > EsgynDB vs. EXASOL vs. Graph Engine vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. EXASOL vs. Graph Engine vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

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

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.exasol.com

www.graphengine.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Esgyn

Exasol

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2000

2010

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

.NET and C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

.NET

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

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

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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