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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

column-oriented

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	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rocksdb.org

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

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2014

1994

2013

1994

2020

Current release

4.4, October 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

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

horizontal partitioning

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

none

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

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

yes

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

using specific database classes

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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