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DBMS > EXASOL vs. FatDB vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FatDB vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperExasolFatCloudCirconus LLC.Microsoft
Initial release2000201220172015
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC#C and C++
Server operating systemsWindowsLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infovia applicationsyes, in Luano
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsnoyes infousing Azure authentication

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