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DBMS > Altibase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbnsdb.iospark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbnsdb.io/­Architecturespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAltibaseMicrosoftMicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release19992015201420172014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023V13.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaScala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedhostedLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON typesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Java
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoJavaScriptnono
TriggersyesnoJavaScriptno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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