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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrigoDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platformScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-exploreropentsdb.netorigodb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-exploreropentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20141983201920112009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release19.4.1, November 2021cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsUser defined using .NET types and collections
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesnono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infovia pluginsKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPHP.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rnoyes
Triggersyesyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicynoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAzure Active Directory AuthenticationnoRole based authorization

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