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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MonetDB vs. Qdrant vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score29.04
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
quasar.aiquestdb.io
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftMonetDB BVQdrantquasardbQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20142004202120092014
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCRustC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoJSON typesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infointeger and binaryyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Rnono
TriggersJavaScriptyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusCollection-level replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*nonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBMonetDBQdrantQuasardbQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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