DBMS > Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RRDtool vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RRDtool vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

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	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

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

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

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

Developer

Microsoft

Tobias Oetiker

SAP, formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

1999

1994

2014

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

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

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

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

in-process shared library
Pipes

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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