DBMS > MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. openGauss vs. RocksDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. openGauss vs. RocksDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

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

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.marklogic.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

rocksdb.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.marklogic.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

Huawei and openGauss community

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2001

2014

2019

2013

2009

Current release

11.0, December 2022

3.0, March 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

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

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

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

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

yes

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, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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