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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MongoDB

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Search engine info

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.

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Score	32.50
Rank	#25	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	453.83
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.mongodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.mongodb.com/manual

Developer

Microsoft

MongoDB, Inc

Initial release

2014

2009

Current release

4.4.2, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free info

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Connector for BI

APIs and other access methods

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript info

inofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure info

inofficial driver
ColdFusion info

inofficial driver
D info

inofficial driver
Dart info

inofficial driver
Delphi info

inofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy info

inofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp info

inofficial driver
Lua info

inofficial driver
MatLab info

inofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell info

inofficial driver
Prolog info

inofficial driver
Python
R info

inofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk info

inofficial driver
Swift

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration info

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts info

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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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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