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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. gStore vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. gStore vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Qdrant

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platformA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS infocolumn orientedVector 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
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score3.28
Rank#83  Overall
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgen.gstore.cnazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorergithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftQdrant
Initial release2014201620192021
Current release1.2, November 2023cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)schema-free
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-typesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Collection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedAzure Active Directory AuthenticationKey-based authentication

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