DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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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.

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

column oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

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

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Score	5.16
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.gbase.cn

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2019

2010

Current release

GBase 8a

cloud service with continuous releases

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

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

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

yes

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

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding