DBMS > Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ReductStore vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ReductStore vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.reduct.store/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Microsoft

ReductStore LLC

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2023

2011

Current release

1.9, March 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Based on Windows Authentication

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