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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Spatial extension of H2Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Wide column store
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn oriented
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.28
Rank#83  Overall
#45  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperAmazonCambridge SemanticsGoogleCNRSMicrosoft
Initial release20072018201520132019
Current release2.3, January 2021cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes 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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynonoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noyesKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesnoyes infobased on H2Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersnononoyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infobased on H2yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2Azure Active Directory Authentication

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