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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. Axibase vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFully managed big data interactive analytics platform
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infocolumn oriented
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
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storealtibase.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.ehcache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseAxibase CorporationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGMicrosoft
Initial release20161999201320092019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023155853.10.0, March 2022cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languagenoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheMicrosoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsyesnoYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replicationyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAzure Active Directory Authentication

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