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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OpenSearch vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column oriented

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#81	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Altibase

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

SQream Technologies

Initial release

1999

2019

2021

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

cloud service with continuous releases

2.5.0, January 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/scalar-data-types

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

see docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/management/updatepolicy

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Spark connector (open source): github.com/Azure/azure-kusto-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Azure Active Directory Authentication

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Typical application scenarios

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