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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#213	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.ehcache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.ehcache.org/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Rackspace

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

Tencent

Initial release

2013

2009

2015

1989

2013

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JCache

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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