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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilitySearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.ioquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architecturedoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperInterSystemsMicrosoftquasardbSiteWhere
Initial release20182015201720092010
Current release2023.3, June 2023V13.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 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 languageJava, ScalaC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes 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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes 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 methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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