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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manuallearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.MicrosoftOpenNMS GroupquasardbSiteWhere
Initial release20022015201420092010
Current release4.0V13.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnoyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing Azure authenticationnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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