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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OpenQM vs. Qdrant vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OpenQM vs. Qdrant vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFully managed big data interactive analytics platformQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn orientedMultivalue DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
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
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
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitebangdb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBMicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsQdrantAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20122019199320212008
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021cloud service with continuous releases3.4-125.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++RustC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yes infowith some exceptionsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryesno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yesCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
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 modenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Azure Active Directory AuthenticationAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelKey-based authenticationno

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