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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn oriented
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
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.31
Rank#159  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score3.28
Rank#83  Overall
#45  Relational DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgbangdb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.bangdb.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoft
Initial release2018201219832019
Current release1.1.0, April 2023BangDB 2.0, October 202119.4.1, November 2021cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)LinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes 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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL like support with command line toolyes infovia pluginsKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
PHP.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and SparknonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
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 modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes (enterprise version only)simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAzure Active Directory Authentication

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