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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP IQ vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.openpie.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Microsoft

OpenPie

SAP, formerly Sybase

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

1994

2012

Current release

2.1, January 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Hadoop integration

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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