DBMS > Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NuoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NuoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
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	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.postgres-xl.org

quasar.ai

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

doc.nuodb.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

quasardb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

2000

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

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

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

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

Immediate Consistency

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

via file-system locks

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

Temporary table

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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