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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleFully managed big data interactive analytics platform
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn oriented
Secondary database modelsTime Series 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
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitecachelot.iowww.dbase.comgeospock.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperAsthon TateGeoSpockMicrosoft
Initial release201519792019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.0, September 2019cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java, Javascript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFixed 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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCMicrosoft 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
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersnononoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic shardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes 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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnono
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAzure Active Directory Authentication

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