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DBMS > Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OrigoDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. OrigoDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFully managed big data interactive analytics platformA fully ACID in-memory object graph databasePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational 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
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerorigodb.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerorigodb.com/­docsdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperMicrosoftRobert Friberg et alTeradataVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20192009 infounder the name LiveDB20052018
Current releasecloud service with continuous releasesv1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC#Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
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-typesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.yesno infocan be achieved using .NETyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsMicrosoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.NetC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, RyesR packagesno
Triggersyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyes infoDomain Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replicationyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynodepending on modelnono
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 persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAzure Active Directory AuthenticationRole based authorizationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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