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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	31.33
Rank	#24	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	4.54
Rank	#66	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.42
Rank	#215	Overall
	#11	Object oriented DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2014

2012

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache License 2.0

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

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
Go
Java
JavaScript info

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Python info

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration info

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Session Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

Consistency level configurable on request level

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

The best IoT Databases for the Edge – an overview and compact guide
10 October 2019

ObjectBox Swift 1.0 Released
24 September 2019

Car Tolling – A case for Edge Computing
11 September 2019

How to benchmark database performance – and ObjectBox
27 August 2019

billiger.de Mobile App Case Study
14 August 2019

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