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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2015

2010

1984

2021

Current release

V12

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

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