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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sphinx vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

opentsdb.net

sphinxsearch.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2011

2001

2012

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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