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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SQream DB vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serversqream.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.sqream.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperMicrosoftMicrosoftSQream TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbHVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20151989201719872011
Current releaseV1SQL Server 2022, November 20222022.1.6, December 2022Transbase 8.3, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC and C++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javauser defined functions in Pythonyesno
TriggersnoyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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