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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. VelocityDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA relational database management system that stores data in columnsWidely used in-process key-value storeA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperMicrosoftMonetDB BVOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2015200419942011
Current releaseV1Dec2023 (11.49), December 202318.1.40, May 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C#
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rnono
Triggersnoyesyes infoonly for the SQL APICallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoBased on Windows Authentication

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