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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimesTen

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Name	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Sequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison	TimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL	In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database model	Relational DBMS column oriented	Relational DBMS	Document store Relational DBMS	Relational 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
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 3.80 Rank #81   Overall #43   Relational DBMS		Score 0.50 Rank #258   Overall #41   Document stores #120   Relational DBMS	Score 1.36 Rank #161   Overall #75   Relational DBMS
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.sequoiadb.com	www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentation	docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer		www.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index	docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	Sequoiadb Ltd.	Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release	2019	1993	2013	1998
Current release	cloud service with continuous releases			11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language			C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	Linux	AIX HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris SPARC/x86 Windows
Data scheme	Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)	yes	schema-free	yes
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	yes oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex	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	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	all fields are automatically indexed	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset	yes	SQL-like query language	yes
APIs and other access methods	Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS) RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	proprietary protocol using JSON	JDBC ODBC ODP.NET Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages	.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PowerShell Python R	Delphi Perl PHP	.Net C++ Java PHP Python	C C++ Java PL/SQL
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R	yes	JavaScript	PL/SQL
Triggers	yes see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy	yes	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Sharding	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.	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	Spark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	Document is locked during a transaction	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes by means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no	yes
User concepts Access control	Azure Active Directory Authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	simple password-based access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Sequoiadb	TimesTen
Recent citations in the news	Update records in a Kusto Database (public preview) | Azure updates 20 February 2024, azure.microsoft.com Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer Add-On for Splunk | Azure updates 3 October 2023, azure.microsoft.com Azure Data Explorer: Log and telemetry analytics benchmark 16 August 2022, azure.microsoft.com Controlling costs in Azure Data Explorer using down-sampling and aggregation 11 February 2019, azure.microsoft.com Providing modern data transfer and storage service at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure - Inside Track Blog 13 July 2023, Microsoft provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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