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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperKineticaMicrosoftMicrosoftTransaction Software GmbHVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20122015201619872011
Current release7.1, August 2021V1Transbase 8.3, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++C and C++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoTransact SQLyesno
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing Azure authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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