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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB vs. SQream DB vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB vs. SQream DB vs. TypeDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA relational database management system that stores data in columnsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.monetdb.orgsqream.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.sqream.comtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftMonetDB BVSQream TechnologiesVaticle
Initial release2015200420172016
Current releaseV1Dec2023 (11.49), December 20232022.1.6, December 20222.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tableshorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Microsoft Azure AI SearchMonetDBSQream DBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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