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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA 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.A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksCloud-based data warehousing serviceFully managed big data interactive analytics platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument 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
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlkylin.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmkylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncAtos Convergence CreatorsIBMMicrosoft
Initial release2015201620142019
Current release3.1.0, July 20201703cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxhostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types
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.yesnoyesno infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noyesKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
LDAP.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
All languages with LDAP bindingsJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPL/SQL, SQL PLYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersyesyesyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infocell divisionShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardLDAP bind authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAzure Active Directory Authentication
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLApache KylinAtos Standard Common RepositoryIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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