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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SpaceTime

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFully managed big data interactive analytics platformSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn orientedSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument 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
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitealtibase.combangdb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.bangdb.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperAltibaseSachin Sinha, BangDBMicrosoftMireo
Initial release1999201220192020
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023BangDB 2.0, October 2021cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C, C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL like support with command line toolKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rno
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes (enterprise version only)Azure Active Directory Authenticationyes

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