DBMS > Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrigoDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrigoDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial 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	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

origodb.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

origodb.com/docs

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

Developer

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Teradata

Initial release

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

2013

2005

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

in Aster File Store

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

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

.Net

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

JavaScript

R packages

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

ACID

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

Role based authorization

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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