DBMS > Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NCache vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NCache vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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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	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.sequoiadb.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Microsoft

Alachisoft

informationpartners gmbh

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2005

2015

2013

2009

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

partial

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

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

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.

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

proprietary protocol using JSON

TinkerPop 3

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

on the application server

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication

none

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

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

multiple readers, single writer

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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)

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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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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