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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. SpatiaLite

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperExasolMicrosoftquasardbSiteWhereAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20002015200920102008
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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