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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitySearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperCognitectMicrosoft
Initial release201620122015
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJava, Clojure
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyes infousing Azure authentication

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