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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. FileMaker vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OrigoDB

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsFully managed big data interactive analytics platformA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document 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
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerorigodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.kinetica.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleKineticaMicrosoftRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20171983201220192009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release2022, May 202219.4.1, November 20217.1, August 2021cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC, C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnoyesno infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesyes infovia pluginsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
PHPC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryes
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAzure Active Directory AuthenticationRole based authorization

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