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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrigoDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrigoDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. VelocityDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dborigodb.comwww.sadasengine.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dborigodb.com/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftRobert Friberg et alSADAS s.r.l.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release201020142009 infounder the name LiveDB20062011
Current release8.07.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC#C++C#
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoJSON typesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
.Net.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJavaScriptyesnono
TriggersyesJavaScriptyes infoDomain EventsnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyeswith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole based authorizationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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