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DBMS > Blueflood vs. FileMaker vs. GBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. FileMaker vs. GBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareFully managed big data interactive analytics platform
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn oriented
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
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperRackspaceClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20131983200420162019
Current release19.4.1, November 2021GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.10, January 2022cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxhosted
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsStandard with numerous extensionsyesKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPC#All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsnoYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoRound robinSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAzure Active Directory Authentication

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