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DBMS > Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP IQ vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP IQ vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFully managed big data interactive analytics platformColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedSpatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument 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
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperMicrosoftSAP, formerly SybaseMireoSTS Soft SC8Kdata
Initial release20191994202020112016
Current releasecloud service with continuous releases16.1 SPS04, April 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C#Java
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindowsAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesyesyesschema-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-typesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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
Secondary indexesall fields are automatically indexedyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsMicrosoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryesnono
Triggersyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerFixed-grid hypercubesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.SAP/Sybase Replication ServerReal-time block device replication (DRBD)noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAzure Active Directory Authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoAccess rights for users and roles

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