DBMS > Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Widely used open source RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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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	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.mysql.com

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rockset.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rockset

Sybase, SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

1995

2019

1993

2014

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

dynamic typing

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.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

Automatic sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

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

ACID

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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