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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTenBase vs. OpenTSDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTenBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully managed big data interactive analytics platformExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileAn enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQLScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedObject oriented DBMSRelational 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
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerobjectbox.iogithub.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
opentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerdocs.objectbox.iodocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
opentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedOpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencentcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release201920172011
Current releasecloud service with continuous releases2.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesall fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsMicrosoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rnono
Triggersyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicynoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.online/offline synchronization between client and serveryesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAzure Active Directory AuthenticationyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
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