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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. RethinkDB vs. YTsaurus

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Fully managed big data interactive analytics platformDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
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
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerrethinkdb.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerrethinkdb.com/­docsytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperCNRSMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Yandex
Initial release2013201920092023
Current releasecloud service with continuous releases2.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Ubuntu
Data schemeyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)schema-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-typesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnoYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsMicrosoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replicationyes
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 systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Azure Active Directory Authenticationyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess Control Lists

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