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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB

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Name	Kingbase  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	SwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.	Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS column oriented	Relational DBMS	Key-value store
Secondary database models	Document store Spatial 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
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.50 Rank #257   Overall #119   Relational DBMS	Score 3.80 Rank #81   Overall #43   Relational DBMS		Score 0.04 Rank #387   Overall #61   Key-value stores
Website	www.kingbase.com.cn	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentation		docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
Developer	BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	Simer Plaha
Initial release	1999	2019	1993	2018
Current release	V8.0, August 2021	cloud service with continuous releases
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	Open Source GNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	C and Java			Scala
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types	yes	no
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	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	all fields are automatically indexed	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	Standard with numerous extensions	Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET gokb JDBC kdbndp ODBC PDI PDO Pro*C psycopg2 QT	Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS) RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python	.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PowerShell Python R	Delphi Perl PHP	Java Kotlin Scala
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions	Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R	yes	no
Triggers	yes	yes see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	Spark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID	Atomic execution of operations
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Azure Active Directory Authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no
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	Kingbase	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	SwayDB
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