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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Tkrzw

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully managed big data interactive analytics platformA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument 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
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitebangdb.comhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20122012201020192020
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.1.3, April 2022cloud service with continuous releases0.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedhostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnoyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIMicrosoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modenonoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAzure Active Directory Authenticationno

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