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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	31.33
Rank	#24	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#124	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Microsoft

Timescale

Initial release

2014

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

XML support info

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

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

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

native C library
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java info

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Master-slave replication with hot standby and reads on slaves info

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration info

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Session Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

Consistency level configurable on request level

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

TimescaleDB is the first open-source time-series database that combines the reliability,...
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Competitive advantages

TimescaleDB is purpose-built to scale and handle time-series data workloads and is...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT, Industrial Machine, and Sensor Data Various industrial IoT use cases across...
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Key customers

Altair Engineering Inc., Bloomberg, Comcast, Cray, Cree, DNSFilter, Laika, LaunchDarkly,...
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Market metrics

1 million+ downloads, 6,500+ Github stars
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2 and Timescale License (TSL); information on pricing for support and enterprise...
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