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DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. RDFox vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. RDFox vs. RisingWave

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFully managed big data interactive analytics platformHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.ioblueflood.ioazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerdocs.oxfordsemantic.techdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.RackspaceMicrosoftOxford Semantic TechnologiesRisingWave Labs
Initial release20152013201920172022
Current releasecloud service with continuous releases6.0, Septermber 20221.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyespredefined schemeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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 indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTMicrosoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
C
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, RUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersnonoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.replication via a shared file system
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 systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAzure Active Directory AuthenticationRoles, resources, and access typesUsers and Roles

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