DBMS > Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MonetDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. Quasardb vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MonetDB vs. NebulaGraph vs. Quasardb vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.monetdb.org

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

quasar.ai

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.nebula-graph.io

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Vesoft Inc.

quasardb

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2014

2004

2019

2009

2018

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

HTTP API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

with Hadoop integration

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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