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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OrigoDB vs. Rockset

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceFully managed big data interactive analytics platformA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document store
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
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#19  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerorigodb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerorigodb.com/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperIBMMicrosoftRobert Friberg et alRockset
Initial release201420192009 infounder the name LiveDB2019
Current releasecloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC#C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesschema-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-typesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsdynamic typing
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesno infocan be achieved using .NETno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.NetGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryesno
Triggersyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes 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-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAzure Active Directory AuthenticationRole based authorizationAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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