DBMS > Aerospike vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.32
Rank	#62	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#140	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	5.51
Rank	#59	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	142.50
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

basex.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

docs.basex.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Aerospike

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2007

2015

2014

Current release

7.1, May 2024

11.2, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports 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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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