DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#278	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.postgresql.fastware.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

McObject

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2001

2010

2014

Current release

8.2, 2021

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

JavaScript

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

partitioning by range, list and by hash

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic 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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantages

eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Built-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Over 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing models

For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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Core based licensing
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