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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Bangdb vs. GBase vs. Linter vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

RDBMS for high security requirements

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

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

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	4.38
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

bangdb.com

www.gbase.cn

linter.ru

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

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

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

relex.ru

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2012

2004

1990

2019

Current release

15585

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

cloud service with continuous releases

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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 query language

SQL like support with command line tool

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

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

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

yes

Spark connector (open source): github.com/Azure/azure-kusto-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Azure Active Directory Authentication

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