DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake

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

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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.monetdb.org

quasar.ai

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

quasardb

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2004

2009

2014

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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