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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. searchxml vs. SWC-DB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison	searchxml  Xexclude from comparison	SWC-DB Super Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform	DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server	A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS	Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database model	Relational DBMS column oriented	Native XML DBMS Search engine	Wide column store	Vector 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		Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 3.80 Rank #81   Overall #43   Relational DBMS	Score 0.03 Rank #390   Overall #7   Native XML DBMS #24   Search engines	Score 0.08 Rank #364   Overall #13   Wide column stores	Score 0.05 Rank #386   Overall #14   Vector DBMS
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer	www.searchxml.net/­category/­products	github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db www.swcdb.org	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentation	docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer	www.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Developer	Microsoft	informationpartners gmbh	Alex Kashirin
Initial release	2019	2015	2020	2023
Current release	cloud service with continuous releases	1.0	0.5, April 2021	1.0, May 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source GPL V3	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++	C++	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Windows	Linux	Linux macOS
Data scheme	Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)	schema-free	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		Vector, Numeric and String
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	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	all fields are automatically indexed	yes		no
SQL Support of SQL	Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset	no	SQL-like query language	no
APIs and other access methods	Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS) RESTful HTTP API	RESTful HTTP API WebDAV XQuery XSLT	Proprietary protocol Thrift	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PowerShell Python R	C++ most other programming languages supported via APIs	C++	C++ Java Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R	yes on the application server	no	no
Triggers	yes see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy	no	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Sharding	Sharding
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	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no		no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	multiple readers, single writer		no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no	yes
User concepts Access control	Azure Active Directory Authentication	Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services		Role based access control and fine grained access rights
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