DBMS > Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NCache vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NCache vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Solr

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

origodb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Robert Friberg et al

SAP, Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2005

2009

under the name LiveDB

1987

2006

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

16.0

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Java plugins

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Notifications

yes

Domain Events

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

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
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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