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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SwayDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	BigObject  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison	SwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries	Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform	An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed	Relational DBMS column oriented	Key-value store
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
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.19 Rank #329   Overall #146   Relational DBMS	Score 3.80 Rank #81   Overall #43   Relational DBMS	Score 0.04 Rank #387   Overall #61   Key-value stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	bigobject.io	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer	swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	docs.bigobject.io	docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
Developer	Alibaba	BigObject, Inc.	Microsoft	Simer Plaha
Initial release		2015	2019	2018
Current release			cloud service with continuous releases
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial free community edition available	commercial	Open Source GNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	yes	no
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Implementation language				Scala
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux distributed as a docker-image OS X distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker) Windows distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)	hosted
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	yes bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types	no
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.	no	no	yes	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	all fields are automatically indexed	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like DML and DDL statements	Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset	no
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	fluentd ODBC RESTful HTTP API	Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS) RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	Java		.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PowerShell Python R	Java Kotlin Scala
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Lua	Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R	no
Triggers	no	no	yes see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		none	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	Spark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	none	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes automatically between fact table and dimension tables	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no	no	Atomic execution of operations
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no	yes
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	no	Azure Active Directory Authentication	no
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