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System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Bangdb vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	4.38
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

bangdb.com

maxdb.sap.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

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

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

1984

2019

Current release

1703

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

cloud service with continuous releases

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

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

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication

yes

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

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Azure Active Directory Authentication

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