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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Quasardb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Splunk

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSFully managed big data interactive analytics platformDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
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
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerquasar.aiwww.sadasengine.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperBaiduMicrosoftquasardbSADAS s.r.l.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20182019200920062003
Current release0.9cloud service with continuous releases3.14.1, January 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)schema-freeyesyes
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 infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexall fields are automatically indexedyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetSQL-like query languageyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rnonoyes
Triggersnoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicynonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparkSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkwith Hadoop integrationnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsAzure Active Directory AuthenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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