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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Faircom DB vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Transbase

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Name	Cachelot.io  Xexclude from comparison	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison
Description	In-memory caching system	Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.	Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database model	Key-value store	Key-value store Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS column oriented	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Document store If 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 this 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 support 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 see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.04 Rank #388   Overall #62   Key-value stores	Score 0.29 Rank #304   Overall #43   Key-value stores #136   Relational DBMS	Score 3.80 Rank #81   Overall #43   Relational DBMS	Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS
Website	cachelot.io	www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-db	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentation		docs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html	docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer		FairCom Corporation	Microsoft	Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release	2015	1979	2019	1987
Current release		V12, November 2020	cloud service with continuous releases	Transbase 8.3, 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Simplified BSD License	commercial Restricted, free version available	commercial	commercial free development license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language	C++	ANSI C, C++		C and C++
Server operating systems	FreeBSD Linux OS X	AIX FreeBSD HP-UX Linux NetBSD OS X QNX SCO Solaris VxWorks Windows easily portable to other OSs	hosted	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,	Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures	yes bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types	yes
XML support Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.	no	no	yes	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	all fields are automatically indexed	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions	Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset	yes
APIs and other access methods	Memcached protocol	ADO.NET Direct SQL JDBC JPA ODBC RESTful HTTP/JSON API RESTful MQTT/JSON API RPC	Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS) RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ ColdFusion Erlang Java Lisp Lua OCaml OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby	.Net C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js and browser) PHP Python Visual Basic	.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PowerShell Python R	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes .Net, JavaScript, C/C++	Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R	yes
Triggers	no	yes	yes see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding Customizable business rules for table partitioning	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	Spark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent	no	yes
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	no	Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no	no
User concepts Access control	no	Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files	Azure Active Directory Authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Cachelot.io	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer	Transbase
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