DBMS > Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Widely used in-process key-value store

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational 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	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Mireo

Apache Software Foundation

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

1994

2020

2014

2020

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

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

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

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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