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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OpenEdge vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

Application development environment with integrated database management system

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column oriented

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

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Score	4.38
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

SiteWhere

Initial release

2019

1984

2010

Current release

cloud service with continuous releases

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/scalar-data-types

yes

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

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

yes

Triggers

yes

see docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/management/updatepolicy

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Spark connector (open source): github.com/Azure/azure-kusto-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Azure Active Directory Authentication

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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