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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison	RDF4J formerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison	searchxml  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development	RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.	DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Search engine	RDF store	Native XML DBMS Search engine
Secondary database models		Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 5.52 Rank #59   Overall #6   Search engines	Score 0.74 Rank #222   Overall #9   RDF stores	Score 0.03 Rank #390   Overall #7   Native XML DBMS #24   Search engines
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search	rdf4j.org	www.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search	rdf4j.org/­documentation	www.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Developer	Alibaba	Microsoft	Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.	informationpartners gmbh
Initial release		2015	2004	2015
Current release		V1		1.0
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	yes	no	no
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Implementation language			Java	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	hosted	Linux OS X Unix Windows	Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes RDF Schemas	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	yes	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.	no	no		yes
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	no	no
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	RESTful HTTP API	Java API RIO RDF Input/Output Sail API SeRQL Sesame RDF Query Language Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SPARQL	RESTful HTTP API WebDAV XQuery XSLT
Supported programming languages	Java	C# Java JavaScript Python	Java PHP Python	C++ most other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	yes	yes on the application server
Triggers	no	no	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	yes sychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	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	no	ACID Isolation support depends on the API used	multiple readers, single writer
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes in-memory storage is supported as well	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no		no
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	yes using Azure authentication	no	Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Microsoft Azure AI Search	RDF4J formerly known as Sesame	searchxml
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