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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Trino

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsFully managed big data interactive analytics platformFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument 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
Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitecachelot.iocloud.google.com/­datastorewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorertrino.io
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorertrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20152008201320192012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release2.7.6, April 2024cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Starburst Galaxy offers a feature-rich user interface to connect all your data sources, manage your Trino clusters, and query your data.
Implementation languageC++GoJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, details hereNumeric data and Stringsyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoall fields are automatically indexeddepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query languageKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetyes
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnousing Google App EnginenoYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryes, depending on connected data-source
TriggersnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using Paxosselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.depending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud DataflownoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
depending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsnonodepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple rights management via user accountsAzure Active Directory AuthenticationSQL standard access control
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Cachelot.ioGoogle Cloud DatastoreInfluxDBMicrosoft Azure Data ExplorerTrino
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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