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System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OushuDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store

If 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

this 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

support 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

see docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/time-series-analysis

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	3.28
Rank	#83	Overall
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer

www.oushu.com/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Codenotary

Microsoft

Oushu

SAP

Initial release

2020

2019

2010

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

cloud service with continuous releases

4.0.1, August 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/scalar-data-types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

see docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/management/updatepolicy

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Spark connector (open source): github.com/Azure/azure-kusto-spark

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Azure Active Directory Authentication

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

yes

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