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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeSearch engineRelational DBMS infocolumn oriented
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument 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
Trend Chart
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperDatabricksIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Manticore SoftwareMicrosoft
Initial release2013201020172019
Current release6.0, February 2023cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeFixed schemaFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes 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.yesnoCan index from XMLyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnoSQL-like query languageKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersyesnoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAzure Active Directory Authentication
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