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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. Quasardb

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.monetdb.orgwww.openpie.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperMicrosoftMonetDB BVOpenPiequasardb
Initial release201520042009
Current releaseV1Dec2023 (11.49), December 20232.1, January 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesyesSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft Azure AI SearchMonetDBPieCloudDBQuasardb
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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