DBMS > etcd vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

machbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sequoiadb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

machbase.com/dbms

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Machbase

Microsoft

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Transwarp

Initial release

2013

2014

2013

Current release

3.4, August 2019

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

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

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

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control

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