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DBMS > Bangdb vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SwayDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA multi-model DBMS and application serverFully managed big data interactive analytics platformAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn orientedKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument 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
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitebangdb.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.intersystems.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBInterSystemsMicrosoftSimer Plaha
Initial release2012199720192018
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212018.1.4, May 2020cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes 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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyes 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 algorithmnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
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 modeyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and rolesAzure Active Directory Authenticationno

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