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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MongoDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Trend Chart

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	410.24
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.mongodb.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Microsoft

MongoDB, Inc

Oracle

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2009

2007

2009

1994

Current release

7.0.5, January 2024

14.1, August 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

.Net
C++
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Erlang

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Live Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

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

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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