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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. STSdb vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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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	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

rethinkdb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Microsoft

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SAP, Sybase

STS Soft SC

SenX

Initial release

2014

2009

1987

2011

2015

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

16.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.NET Client API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

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

based on HBase

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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