DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sphinx vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sphinx vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

sphinxsearch.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

IBM

Microsoft

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2010

2017

2014

2001

2017

Current release

2.0

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

Proprietary protocol

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active-active shard replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

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 locking

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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 rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

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