DBMS > Immudb vs. KeyDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Quasardb vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. KeyDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Quasardb vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

quasar.ai

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

docs.keydb.dev

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Codenotary

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Microsoft

quasardb

Initial release

2020

2019

2014

2009

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

JSON types

yes

integer and binary

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

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

HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

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

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

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 with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

by using LevelDB

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control and ACL

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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