DBMS > atoti vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.59
Rank	#242	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	29.85
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

atoti.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

opennms.github.io/newts

quasar.ai

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.quasar.ai/master

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

ActiveViam

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2009

2011

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

with 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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Based on Windows Authentication

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