DBMS > c-treeACE vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison c-treeACE vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

High speed key-value store, desgined for high availability, mission critical applications with automatic recovery and immediately consistent transaction support.

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store info

as of version 7
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.52
Rank	#206	Overall
	#34	Key-value stores
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	12.47
Rank	#38	Overall
	#6	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#4	Search engines

Score	31.43
Rank	#24	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.faircom.com/-products/-c-treeace

www.marklogic.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

learn.faircomcorp.com/developers/documentation_directory

docs.marklogic.com

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

FairCom Corporation

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

Initial release

1979

2001

2014

Current release

V11.5, November 2017

9.0, 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

Restricted, free version available

commercial info

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows info

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free info

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

JSON types

XML support info

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API info

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding info

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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 info

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts info

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

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts info

Access control

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Speed, reliability and consistency are the reasons businesses choose FairComâ€™s c-treeACE...
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The MarkLogic Multi-Model Database provides the simplest way to integrate data from...
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Competitive advantages

Top Features High-speed transaction processing Immediately consistent, ACID-compliant,...
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The main benefit of MarkLogic is simplicity. By making things simpler, MarkLogic...
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Typical application scenarios

c-treeACE speed, reliability, and flexibility are direct reasons this technology...
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MarkLogic’s main use case is the Operational Data Hub . A Data Hub is useful for...
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Key customers

VISA, UPS, Verizon, Motorola, CommVault, Thomson Reuters, ACI, BNY Mellon, Rockwell...
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MarkLogic has proven results managing mission-critical data with over 1,000 global...
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Market metrics

From banking and financial transactions, transportation, warehouse automation, package...
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MarkLogic is well known within the Fortune 1000, with a strong presence in financial...
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Licensing and pricing models

Just as the technical aspects of c-treeACE are flexible to meet operation requirements,...
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MarkLogic provides a variety of licenses and cloud services: MarkLogic Data Hub Service...
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