DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. dBASE vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. dBASE vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

If 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

this 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

support 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

see docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/time-series-analysis

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.38
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.dbase.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

kairosdb.github.io

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer

Developer

Alibaba

Asthon Tate

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

1979

2013

2019

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

cloud service with continuous releases

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/scalar-data-types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

Java

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Java

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

Triggers

yes

see docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/management/updatepolicy

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding