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DBMS > EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDF4J

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
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 distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Search engineRDF store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.marklogic.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.marklogic.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperExasolCirconus LLC.MarkLogic Corp.MicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20002017200120152004
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 201811.0, December 2022V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infoSQL92nono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, in Luayes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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