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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. QuestDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine

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NameMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score29.04
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbquestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.snowflake.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbquestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperMicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncSAP, formerly SybaseSnowflake Computing Inc.Splice Machine
Initial release20142014199420142014
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 20193.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoJSON typesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnoyesuser defined functionsyes infoJava
TriggersJavaScriptnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexeryesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySAP/Sybase Replication ServeryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*noHadoop integrationnoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACID for single-table writesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infothrough memory mapped filesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBQuestDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQSnowflakeSplice Machine
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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