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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Heroic vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Heroic vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform
Primary database modelEvent StoreTime Series DBMSSearch 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
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comspotify.github.io/­heroicmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedSpotifyManticore SoftwareMicrosoft
Initial release2012201420172019
Current release21.2, February 20216.0, February 2023cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemaFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, 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.noCan index from XMLyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersnonoyes 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 nodesyesSynchronous 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 methodsnonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAzure Active Directory Authentication

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