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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

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

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

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

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

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

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

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Percona

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2016

2015

2013

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Transact SQL

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

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