DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.sadasengine.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Cesbit

Initial release

2015

2012

1989

2006

2017

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

optimistic locking

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.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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