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DBMS > jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareFully managed big data interactive analytics platformNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.43
Rank#160  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.16
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.99
Rank#195  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasepostgis.nettempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerdoc.nuodb.compostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)MicrosoftDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.TempoIQ
Initial release19912019201320052012
Current release5.7cloud service with continuous releases3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
hostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, RJava, SQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyesyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocolACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTemporary tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAzure Active Directory AuthenticationStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple authentication-based access control

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