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

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

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational 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
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational 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/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmaxdb.sap.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbpostgis.net
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iomaxdb.sap.com/­documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperChris DavisSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Microsoft
Initial release2006198420142005
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyes 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 indexesnoyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJavaScriptuser defined functions
TriggersnoyesJavaScriptyes
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 nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes 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 systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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