DBMS > Immudb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Riak TS vs. SurrealDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Riak TS vs. SurrealDB 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.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

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

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

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

surrealdb.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Codenotary

Microsoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2020

2014

2015

2022

2009

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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