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DBMS > Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. TerarkDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquasar.aigithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.quasar.ai/­masterbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperChris DavisMicrosoftquasardbByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2006201520092016
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyes infointeger and binaryno
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 indexesnoyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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