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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. PouchDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. PouchDB vs. Riak TS

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platformJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score3.28
Rank#83  Overall
#45  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerpouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerpouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftApache Software FoundationOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release1983201920122015
Current release19.4.1, November 2021cloud service with continuous releases7.1.1, June 20193.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesnono
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesnono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, RView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAzure Active Directory Authenticationnono

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