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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

column oriented

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

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	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#81	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.esgyn.cn

machbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

machbase.com/dbms

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Esgyn

Machbase

Microsoft

Oracle

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2015

2013

2019

2007

2009

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

cloud service with continuous releases

14.1, August 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

.Net
C++
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

Erlang

Triggers

yes

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

yes

Live Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

yes

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

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Azure Active Directory Authentication

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes, using Riak Security

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