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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MySQL vs. NSDb vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.mysql.com

nsdb.io

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

dev.mysql.com/doc

nsdb.io/Architecture

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

1995

2017

2012

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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