DBMS > DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name	DolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	SWC-DB Super Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.	Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS column oriented	Relational DBMS	Wide column store	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models	Relational 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		Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 4.03 Rank #78   Overall #6   Time Series DBMS	Score 3.80 Rank #81   Overall #43   Relational DBMS		Score 0.08 Rank #364   Overall #13   Wide column stores	Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS
Website	www.dolphindb.com	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db www.swcdb.org	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentation	docs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html	docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer			www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer	DolphinDB, Inc	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	Alex Kashirin	Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release	2018	2019	1993	2020	1987
Current release	v2.00.4, January 2022	cloud service with continuous releases		0.5, April 2021	Transbase 8.3, 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free community version available	commercial	commercial	Open Source GPL V3	commercial free development license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++			C++	C and C++
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	hosted	Linux Windows	Linux	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	yes	Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types	yes		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.	no	yes	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	all fields are automatically indexed	yes		yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset	yes	SQL-like query language	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC JSON over HTTP Kafka MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC OPC DA OPC UA RabbitMQ WebSocket	Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS) RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	Proprietary protocol Thrift	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	C# C++ Go Java JavaScript MatLab Python R Rust	.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PowerShell Python R	Delphi Perl PHP	C++	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R	yes	no	yes
Triggers	no	yes see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	horizontal partitioning	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication		Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	Spark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes		yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	no	ACID		yes
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no	no
User concepts Access control	Administrators, Users, Groups	Azure Active Directory Authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard		fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	DolphinDB	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	SWC-DB Super Wide Column Database	Transbase
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