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DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksCloud-based data warehousing serviceFully managed big data interactive analytics platformScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAtos Convergence CreatorsIBMMicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20162014201920182011
Current release1703cloud service with continuous releases11.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyesyes
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.yesno infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsLDAP.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesAll languages with LDAP bindingsJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryesno
Triggersyesyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infocell divisionShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP bind authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAzure Active Directory AuthenticationRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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