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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Prometheus

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandFully managed big data interactive analytics platformOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelWide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedTime 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
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerprometheus.io
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBMEmbarcaderoMicrosoft
Initial release20082017198420192015
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.0InterBase 2020, December 2019cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC and C++CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesNumeric data only
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 possibleyesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnonoyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replicationInterbase Change Viewsyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAzure Active Directory Authenticationno

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