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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column oriented

Wide column store

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

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#300	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	3.09
Rank	#83	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#382	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

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

Developer

DGraph Labs

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2017

2019

2020

Current release

cloud service with continuous releases

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

Triggers

yes

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Azure Active Directory Authentication

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