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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Splunk vs. TerminusDB vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

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

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Search engine

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#9	Object oriented DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.splunk.com

terminusdb.com

typedb.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Splunk Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Vaticle

Initial release

2014

2003

2018

2016

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

Synchronous replication via raft

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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