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System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SpatiaLite vs. SwayDB

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Name	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison	SpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison	SwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData	Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform	Spatial extension of SQLite	An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS column oriented	Spatial DBMS	Key-value store
Secondary database models		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	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.17 Rank #337   Overall #30   Time Series DBMS	Score 3.80 Rank #81   Overall #43   Relational DBMS	Score 1.63 Rank #146   Overall #3   Spatial DBMS	Score 0.04 Rank #387   Overall #61   Key-value stores
Website	machbase.com	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer	www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index	swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentation	machbase.com/­dbms	docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer	www.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer	Machbase	Microsoft	Alessandro Furieri	Simer Plaha
Initial release	2013	2019	2008	2018
Current release	V8.0, August 2023	cloud service with continuous releases	5.0.0, August 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free test version available	commercial	Open Source MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1	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		C++	Scala
Server operating systems	Linux macOS Windows	hosted	server-less
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.	no	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	all fields are automatically indexed	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language	Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	gRPC HTTP REST JDBC MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC	Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS) RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript PHP via ODBC Python R via ODBC Scala	.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PowerShell Python R		Java Kotlin Scala
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R	no	no
Triggers	no	yes see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	selectable replication factor	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.	none	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		Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no	ACID	Atomic execution of operations
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	no	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes volatile and lookup table	no	yes	yes
User concepts Access control	simple password-based access control	Azure Active Directory Authentication	no	no
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Recent citations in the news		We’re retiring Azure Time Series Insights on 7 July 2024 – transition to Azure Data Explorer | Azure updates 31 May 2024, Microsoft Update records in a Kusto Database (public preview) | Azure updates 20 February 2024, Microsoft Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer connector for Apache Flink | Azure updates 8 January 2024, Microsoft Announcing General Availability to migrate Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer Cluster to Private Endpoints ... 5 February 2024, Microsoft Migration of Azure Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer cluster to Private Endpoints | Azure updates 4 December 2023, Microsoft provided by Google News

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