DBMS > HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

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	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

SAP, Sybase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2010

2014

1987

2013

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

JSON types

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica 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 or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

atomic operations within a document possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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