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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Firebolt vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OpenQM vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebolt vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OpenQM vs. OrigoDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseFully managed big data interactive analytics platformQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Object oriented 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
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.firebolt.ioazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmorigodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.MicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20132020201919932009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current releasecloud service with continuous releases3.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedhostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnono
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesGoGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryesyes
Triggersnonoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyeshorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layeryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAzure Active Directory AuthenticationAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole based authorization

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