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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SiteWhere vs. Solr

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
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
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresolr.apache.org
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperMicrosoftMicrosoftSiteWhereApache Software Foundation
Initial release2015201620102006
Current releaseV19.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLJava plugins
Triggersnonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes

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