DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SpatiaLite vs. SWC-DB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SpatiaLite vs. SWC-DB vs. Yaacomo

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Name	Atos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison	SpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison	SWC-DB Super Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison	Yaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
	This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.				Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
Description	Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks	Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform	Spatial extension of SQLite	A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS	OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database model	Document store Key-value store	Relational DBMS column oriented	Spatial DBMS	Wide column store	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	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart		Score 3.80 Rank #81   Overall #43   Relational DBMS	Score 1.63 Rank #146   Overall #3   Spatial DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #364   Overall #13   Wide column stores
Website	atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer	www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index	github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db www.swcdb.org	yaacomo.com
Technical documentation		docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer	www.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer	Atos Convergence Creators	Microsoft	Alessandro Furieri	Alex Kashirin	Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release	2016	2019	2008	2020	2009
Current release	1703	cloud service with continuous releases	5.0.0, August 2020	0.5, April 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1	Open Source GPL V3	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java		C++	C++
Server operating systems	Linux	hosted	server-less	Linux	Android Linux Windows
Data scheme	Schema and schema-less with LDAP views	Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	optional	yes bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types	yes		yes
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	yes	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	all fields are automatically indexed	yes		yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset	yes	SQL-like query language	yes
APIs and other access methods	LDAP	Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS) RESTful HTTP API		Proprietary protocol Thrift	JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	All languages with LDAP bindings	.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PowerShell Python R		C++
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R	no	no
Triggers	yes	yes see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding cell division	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Sharding	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.	none		Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods		Spark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes		yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	Atomic execution of specific operations	no	ACID		ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	yes	no	yes
User concepts Access control	LDAP bind authentication	Azure Active Directory Authentication	no		fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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