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System Properties Comparison LeanXcale vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OrigoDB vs. PostgreSQL

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Name

Description

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	645.54
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Website

www.leanxcale.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

origodb.com

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

origodb.com/docs

www.postgresql.org/docs

Developer

LeanXcale

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Initial release

2015

2009

under the name LiveDB

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

Current release

16.3, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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