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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	InfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS column oriented
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 0.08 Rank #365   Overall #55   Key-value stores	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS	Score 3.80 Rank #81   Overall #43   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	boilerbay.com	google.github.io/­lovefield	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md	docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
Developer	Alibaba	Boiler Bay Inc.	Google	Microsoft
Initial release		2002	2014	2019
Current release		4.0	2.1.12, February 2017	cloud service with continuous releases
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	yes
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Implementation language		Java	JavaScript
Server operating systems	hosted	All OS with a Java VM	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	hosted
Data scheme	schema-free	yes nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade	yes	Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays	yes	yes bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types
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	no	yes
Secondary indexes	no	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes	all fields are automatically indexed
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)		Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS) RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	Java	Java	JavaScript	.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PowerShell Python R
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	no	Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggers	no	no	Using read-only observers	yes see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	none	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		none	none	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	Spark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED		Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	yes using MemoryDB	no
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	no	no	Azure Active Directory Authentication
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	InfinityDB	Lovefield	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer
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