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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. VelocityDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

velocitydb.com

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

VelocityDB Inc

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2023

2014

2011

2018

Current release

7.x

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Any that supports .NET

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

.Net

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Synchronous replication

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

Eventual 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

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Based on Windows Authentication

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