DBMS > atoti vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Milvus vs. Newts vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Milvus vs. Newts vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

atoti.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

milvus.io

opennms.github.io/newts

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

ActiveViam

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2014

2019

2014

2005

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

Vector, Numeric and String

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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