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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. ReductStore vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column oriented

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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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Trend Chart

Score	3.80
Rank	#81	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/data-explorer

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

www.reduct.store/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Microsoft

ReductStore LLC

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2019

2023

2015

Current release

cloud service with continuous releases

1.9, March 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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.

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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