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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, high-performance timeseries databasePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftquasardbTeradata
Initial release2014201520092005
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoR packages
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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