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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Microsoft

Oracle

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2017

2014

2007

1994

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

14.1, August 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

.Net
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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