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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenQM vs. OrientDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

orientdb.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Rocket Software

Initial release

2014

2010

1993

2010

1985

Current release

V12

3.4-12

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

optional

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Transact SQL

yes

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Hooks

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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