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

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#16  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquasar.aiwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingreslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperActian CorporationMicrosoftquasardb
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201520092023
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 licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryVector, 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 availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIRESTful 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
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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