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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. Yanza

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Search engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbsphinxsearch.comsqream.comyanza.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperMicrosoftMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.SQream TechnologiesYanza
Initial release20152014200120172015
Current releaseV13.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON typesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
Proprietary protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptnouser defined functions in Pythonno
TriggersnoJavaScriptnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnono

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