DBMS > Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox vs. OrigoDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox vs. OrigoDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

objectbox.io

origodb.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.objectbox.io

origodb.com/docs

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

Developer

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Robert Friberg et al

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

yes

Role based authorization

simple password-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

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14 November 2023

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13 June 2023

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