DBMS > Couchbase vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. TinkerGraph vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. TinkerGraph vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

column oriented

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

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Trend Chart

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	4.38
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

hive.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2011

2012

2019

2009

2012

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

cloud service with continuous releases

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R

Groovy
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

see docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/management/updatepolicy

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Spark connector (open source): github.com/Azure/azure-kusto-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Azure Active Directory Authentication

yes

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