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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sqrrl

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFully managed big data interactive analytics platformLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn orientedRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument 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
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputebangdb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsqrrl.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.bangdb.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperAlibabaSachin Sinha, BangDBMicrosoftSybase, SAPAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release20162012201919932012
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyesyes
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 indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL like support with command line toolKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetyesno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavanoYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryesno
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Multi-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modenono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes (enterprise version only)Azure Active Directory Authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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