DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

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

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Percona

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2010

2014

1984

2015

2022

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

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-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

yes, on a single node

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.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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