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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. DataFS vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph 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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#354  Overall
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitecachelot.iowww.citusdata.comnewdatabase.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperMobiland AGMicrosoft
Initial release2015201020182019
Current release8.1, December 20181.1.263, October 2022cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxWindowshosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes 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 infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersnoyesno, except callback-events from server when changes happenedyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingProprietary Sharding systemSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes 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 systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardWindows-ProfileAzure Active Directory Authentication

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