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DBMS > gStore vs. H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

System Properties Comparison gStore vs. H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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NamegStore  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Spatial extension of H2Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandFully managed big data interactive analytics platform
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn oriented
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument 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
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Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websiteen.gstore.cnwww.h2gis.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentationen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperCNRSEmbarcaderoMicrosoft
Initial release2016201319842019
Current release1.2, November 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)
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-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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersyesyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Interbase Change Viewsyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAzure Active Directory Authentication

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