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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

column oriented

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

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#81	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rocksdb.org

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2014

2019

2016

2013

2015

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

cloud service with continuous releases

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

Transact SQL

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

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

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Azure Active Directory Authentication

yes

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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