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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. NCache vs. PieCloudDB vs. Tibero

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLFully managed big data interactive analytics platformOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument 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
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.25
Rank#304  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.openpie.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docstechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftAlachisoftOpenPieTmaxSoft
Initial release2010201920052003
Current release8.1, December 2018cloud service with continuous releases5.3.3, April 20242.1, January 20236, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageCC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC and Assembler
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRuser defined functionsPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyes infoNotificationsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyeshorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes, with selectable consistency levelyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAzure Active Directory AuthenticationAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)
More information provided by the system vendor
CitusMicrosoft Azure Data ExplorerNCachePieCloudDBTibero
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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