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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TerarkDB vs. TimesTen

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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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

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

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Microsoft

ByteDance, originally Terark

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2015

2010

2016

1998

Current release

V12

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

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