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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. RRDtool vs. searchxml

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platformIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.gbase.cnazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-exploreross.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-exploreross.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAlibabaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.MicrosoftTobias Oetikerinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20162004201919992015
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8ccloud service with continuous releases1.8.0, 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedHP-UX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesNumeric data onlyyes
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.noyesyesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyes
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnono
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaC#.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functionsYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rnoyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicynono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.noneyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesAzure Active Directory AuthenticationnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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