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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

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

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2010

2015

2014

2004

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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