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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. GBase vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

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

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column oriented

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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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Trend Chart

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	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	4.38
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.gbase.cn

hazelcast.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

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

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Hazelcast

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2012

2008

2019

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

GBase 8a

5.3.6, November 2023

cloud service with continuous releases

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Events

yes

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

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

Replicated Map

yes

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

Source-replica replication

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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

Write ahead log

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Role-based access control

Azure Active Directory Authentication

Role based authorization

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