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DBMS > GridDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitegriddb.netboilerbay.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manuallearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperToshiba CorporationBoiler Bay Inc.Microsoft
Initial release201320022015
Current release5.1, August 20224.0V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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 indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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 can be defined per databasenoyes infousing Azure authentication

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