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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. PostGIS

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platformSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument 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
Relational DBMS
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
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitebangdb.commanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.commanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBManticore SoftwareMicrosoft
Initial release2012201720192005
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20216.0, February 2023cloud service with continuous releases3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemaFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyes
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.noCan index from XMLyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query languageKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ruser defined functions
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes infobased on PostgreSQL
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 accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
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 modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)noAzure Active Directory Authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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