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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak TS vs. Rockset

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NameMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully managed big data interactive analytics platformExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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 DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerobjectbox.iorockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerdocs.objectbox.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesRockset
Initial release2019201720152019
Current releasecloud service with continuous releases3.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesschema-freeschema-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-typesyesnodynamic typing
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.yesnonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesall fields are automatically indexedyesrestrictedall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnoyes, limitedRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsMicrosoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
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 infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, RnoErlangno
Triggersyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicynoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingAutomatic sharding
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 serverselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAzure Active Directory AuthenticationyesnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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