gdotv vs. Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer
About Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer
Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer is a free, browser-based tool that comes bundled with Azure Cosmos DB. It allows running Gremlin queries, viewing results as JSON or a simple graph, editing vertices/edges, and seeing query stats.
To learn more about how Azure Cosmos DB integrates with gdotv, click here.
Summary
The Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer is adequate for simple, occasional queries. Its primary strength is that it comes bundled with your Azure Cosmos DB license, meaning that you can do rudimentary data exploration of your Azure Cosmos data without turning to other vendors.
For those wanting deeper look at their data, however, they will find that the Azure Cosmos Data Explorer has significant limitations. gdotv is a more powerful client, built for detailed, day-to-day graph database work, and comes packaged with substantively more advanced querying, visualization, and exploration features. As a general-purpose graph IDE, gdotv also provides a centralized environment for users to access all their graph data, hosted on Azure Cosmos DB or otherwise.
For those wanting deeper look at their data, however, they will find that the Azure Cosmos Data Explorer has significant limitations. gdotv is a more powerful client, built for detailed, day-to-day graph database work, and comes packaged with substantively more advanced querying, visualization, and exploration features. As a general-purpose graph IDE, gdotv also provides a centralized environment for users to access all their graph data, hosted on Azure Cosmos DB or otherwise.
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gdotv
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Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer
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| Query Editor | ✅ | ✅ |
| Query Language | Gremlin & more | Gremlin |
| Syntax Highlighting | ✅ | ✖ |
| Schema-Aware Autocomplete | ✅ | ✖ |
| Built-in Documentation | ✅ | ✖ |
| No-Code Exploration | ✅ | ✖ |
| Dashboarding | ✅ | ✖ |
| Multiple Graph Layouts | ✅ | ✖ |
| Edit graph within UI | ✅ | ✖ |
| Graph filtering | ✅ | ✖ |
| Deployment | Desktop / Cloud | Browser based |
| Pricing model | Commercial / Free trial | Bundled with Azure Cosmos DB |
| Database support | Industry-wide | Azure Cosmos DB |
Thoughts from the gdotv team
“If you’re serious about using the Gremlin API on Azure Cosmos DB you will very quickly run into limitations with the Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer. gdotv gives you all the tooling you actually need to perform complex operations against your graph database whether it be writing difficult Gremlin queries, profiling your queries, visualizing data, or just exploring and interacting with your graph data.”
– Arthur Bigeard
