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DBMS > BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. OrientDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score3.27
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#15  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.ioorientdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orglearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperBaseX GmbHMicrosoftOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release2007201520172010
Current release10.7, August 2023V13.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes: 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJava, Javascript
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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