DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. Vitess vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. Vitess vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.mysql.com

vitess.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Yanza

Initial release

2015

1995

2013

2015

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

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 licenses available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

HTTP 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

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

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

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 across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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