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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SvectorDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Serverless cloud-native vector database

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	23.06
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#392	Overall
	#19	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#391	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

svectordb.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.svectordb.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

SvectorDB

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2023

2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

string, double, vector

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

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

OpenAPI 3.0, RESTful HTTP API, Python SDK, JavaScript / TypeScript SDK

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

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