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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS vs. Trino

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScriptFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelWide column storeSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterpriseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsphinxsearch.comsql.js.orgtrino.io
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmltrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperDataStaxMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20112015200120122012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release6.8, April 2020V13.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Datastax Astra DB: Astra DB simplifies cloud-native Cassandra application development for your apps, microservices and functions. Deploy in minutes on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and have it managed for you by the experts, with serverless, pay-as-you-go pricing.Starburst Galaxy offers a feature-rich user interface to connect all your data sources, manage your Trino clusters, and query your data.
Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolJavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonedepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenonedepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate Consistencynonedepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnonoACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a filedepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectyes infousing Azure authenticationnonoSQL standard access control
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Datastax EnterpriseMicrosoft Azure AI SearchSphinxSQL.JSTrino
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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