DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

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

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

www.progress.com/openedge

www.snowflake.com

sql.js.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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2015

2010

1984

2014

2012

Current release

V12

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

none

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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