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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Newts vs. SpaceTime vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational 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	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

opennms.github.io/newts

www.mireo.com/spacetime

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Mireo

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2020

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C#
C++
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

yes

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