DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. NSDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. NSDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.mysql.com

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP, Sybase

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2015

1995

2017

1987

2016

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Scala

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Scala

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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