DBMS > Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak TS vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak TS vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series 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	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

objectbox.io

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.objectbox.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

2017

2015

1999

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ODBC

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Erlang

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

selectable replication factor

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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