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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cubrid vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Tkrzw

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Cubrid  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison	Tkrzw Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP	Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform	A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	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 1.04 Rank #187   Overall #87   Relational DBMS	Score 3.80 Rank #81   Overall #43   Relational DBMS	Score 0.07 Rank #372   Overall #57   Key-value stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	cubrid.com (korean) cubrid.org (english)	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer	dbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	cubrid.org/­manuals	docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
Developer	Alibaba	CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation	Microsoft	Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release		2008	2019	2020
Current release		11.0, January 2021	cloud service with continuous releases	0.9.3, August 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	yes	no
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Implementation language		C, C++, Java		C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	hosted	Linux macOS
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
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset	no
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS) RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	Java	C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Ruby	.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PowerShell Python R	C++ Java Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Java Stored Procedures	Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R	no
Triggers	no	yes	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		Source-replica replication	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	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	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	no	no	yes using specific database classes
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Azure Active Directory Authentication	no
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