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

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

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable, 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 engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.monetdb.orgnsdb.iospark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAltibaseMicrosoftMonetDB BVApache Software Foundation
Initial release19992015200420172014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023V1Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CJava, ScalaScala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: 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 indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyes, in SQL, C, Rnono
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
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 authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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