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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerminusDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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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	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

terminusdb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

DataChemist Ltd.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

1992

2018

2001

Current release

17, July 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Journaling Streams

yes

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

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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