DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

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

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

IBM

Microsoft

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2014

2012

1994

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

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

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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