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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingreslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperActian CorporationMicrosoftquasardbSiteWhere
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2015200920102023
Current release11.2, May 2022V13.14.1, January 20241.0, May 2023
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 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesVector, Numeric and String
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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