DBMS > Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

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	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

STS Soft SC

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

2007

2006

2011

2016

Current release

14.1, August 2023

8.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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