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    Azure Cosmos DB

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's Big Data analysis platform. It is a NoSQL database service and is a replacement for the earlier DocumentDB NoSQL database.N/A

    Riak

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ARiak is a NoSQL database from Basho Technologies in Bellevue, Washington.N/A
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    Azure Cosmos DBRiak
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    Azure Cosmos DBRiak
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    HBase
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure Cosmos DBRiak
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.6
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure Cosmos DBRiak
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Like any NoSQL database, whether it's MongoDB or not, it's best suited for unstructured data. It's also well suited for storing raw data before processing it and performing any type of ETL on the data.
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    Basho Technologies
    Riak is well suited to applications such as:
    Transaction logging e.g. financial transactions and/or exchange rates.
    Storing time series data, especially IoT.
    Storing massive amounts of data e.g. corporation wide backups, data lakes etc.
    A fully s3 compatible replacement for Amazon s3 ensuring data privacy.
    Riak is not as well suited to:
    Traditional RDBMS functions, especially those that join the outputs of one or more queries together to produce the desired result.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Scalable Instantly and automatically serverless database for any large scale business.
    • Quick access and response to data queries due to high speed in reading and writing data
    • Create a powerful digital experience for your customers with real-time offers and agile access to DB with super-fast analysis and comparison for best recommendation
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    Basho Technologies
    • Highly available: If nodes go offline for any reason, the system still operates.
    • Highly scalable: There is a minimum of 5 nodes, which can handle a lot by themselves. When scaling is required, it can be done easily, with minimal to no downtime on large scales.
    • Very fast searching: Riak has SOLR indexing built-into the core product, which makes querying for data very fast.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Expensive, so be careful of the use case.
    • We had a thought time migrating from traditional DBs to Cosmos. Azure should provide a seamless platform for the migration of data from on-premises to cloud.
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    Basho Technologies
    • Deletes!!! We've seen on numerous occasions where Riak has "resurrected" deleted data. We've worked with Basho numerous times and tried multiple changes to the way we interact with Riak to prevent the problem but it still remains. The deletes seem to reappear weeks, even months, after the delete was issued. We've had to work around this issue by providing a "deleted" flag for all data objects stored in Riak. Thus, we do no delete but simply flip the flag. Excess baggage we would really like to not have to worry about.
    • Search. Currently there's no way to tell what data you have in Riak without already knowing a particular bucket/key. There is a way to list the keys for a given bucket but due to performance implications, this is not a viable method to lookup data. Especially when you have a large amount of keys in the bucket.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    It's efficient, easy to scale, and works. We do have to do a bit of administration, but less now than when we started with this a couple of years ago. Microsoft continues to improve its self-management capability.
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    Basho Technologies
    Right now, I'm on a project where we need databases that can run on embedded systems. Riak isn't necessarily the best fit for that scenario. But when we need a clustered database, that's where we'd start considering Riak.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    It has very good compatibility and adaptability with other APIs and developers can safely create new apps because it is compatible with various tools and can be easily managed and run under the cloud, and in terms of security, it is one of the best of its kind, which is very powerful and excellent.
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    Basho Technologies
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    Microsoft is the best when it comes to after-sales support. They have a well-structured training and knowledge base portal that anyone can use. They are usually quick to respond to cases and are on point for on-call support. I have no complaints from a support standpoint. Pretty happy with the support.
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    Basho Technologies
    Despite Basho going bankrupt and the project becoming fully open-source, community support is reasonably good, albeit a little slow at times. Paid enterprise-grade support is also available from former Basho engineers but the same company also contributes to the community support for free for basic questions or specific knowledge areas.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Cosmos DB is unique in the industry as a true multi-model, cloud-native database engine that comes with solutions for geo-redundancy, multi-master writes, (globally!) low latency, and cost-effective hosting built in. I've yet to see anything else that even comes close to the power that Cosmos DB packs into its solution. The simplicity and tooling support are nice bonus features as well.
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    Basho Technologies
    Because of the RESTful HTTP interface, the consistency model, and because of the catalog-driven data model, Riak was an easy win over Redis and Memcached.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • It's made managing raw data much easier
    • It provides a way to maintain raw data at a low cost
    • It's easy to massage the data
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    Basho Technologies
    • Riak has been a key part of our company's build process for our client's search backend. It is valuable for is in that it provides a reliable way to view the current search index.
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