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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. MonetDB vs. Trino

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NameKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance Time Series DBMSFully managed big data interactive analytics platformA relational database management system that stores data in columnsFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn orientedRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument 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
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitekx.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.monetdb.orgtrino.io
Technical documentationcode.kx.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoftMonetDB BVTrino Software Foundation
Initial release2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201920042012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release3.6, May 2018cloud service with continuous releasesDec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageqCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesyes
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-typesyesyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'all fields are automatically indexedyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (q)Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryes, in SQL, C, Ryes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyes infowith viewsyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusdepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
depending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsAzure Active Directory Authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access control
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KdbMicrosoft Azure Data ExplorerMonetDBTrino
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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