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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. ObjectBox vs. PieCloudDB vs. Prometheus

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridFully managed big data interactive analytics platformLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document 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
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorergithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.openpie.comprometheus.io
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerdocs.objectbox.ioprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperHazelcastMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedOpenPie
Initial release2008201920172015
Current release5.3.6, November 2023cloud service with continuous releases4.0 (May 2024)2.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesyesyes
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, plus "flex" map-like typesyesNumeric 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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyesnono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoEventsyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicynonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyesyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAzure Active Directory AuthenticationyesUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
HazelcastMicrosoft Azure Data ExplorerObjectBoxPieCloudDBPrometheus
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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