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DBMS > BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TerminusDB vs. Typesense vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TerminusDB vs. Typesense vs. VelocityDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivityA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#210  Overall
#14  Search engines
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitebasex.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchterminusdb.comtypesense.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orglearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#typesense.org/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperBaseX GmbHMicrosoftDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20072015201820152011
Current release10.7, August 2023V111.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaProlog, RustC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infopre-defined schema optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
RESTful HTTP API.Net
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript
Python
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes infousing Azure authenticationRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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