DBMS > Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.monetdb.org

quasar.ai

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

quasardb

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

2004

2009

2008

Current release

11.2, May 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

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

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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