DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Vertica vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Vertica vs. Yanza

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Name

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Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.vertica.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

McObject

Microsoft

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Yanza

Initial release

2001

2014

2005

2015

Current release

8.2, 2021

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

by defining events

JavaScript

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Market metrics

With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing models

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