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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

column oriented

Secondary database models

Graph 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

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.38
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

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

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Mobiland AG

Microsoft

Huawei and openGauss community

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2018

2019

2018

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

cloud service with continuous releases

3.0, March 2022

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

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

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Azure Active Directory Authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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