DBMS > JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sqrrl vs. TempoIQ vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sqrrl vs. TempoIQ vs. XTDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

sqrrl.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

TempoIQ

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2014

2012

2019

Current release

0.8, December 2018

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

yes, each node contains all data

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

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

simple authentication-based access control

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