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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.ioquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architecturedoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbSiteWhereSimer Plaha
Initial release20152017200920102018
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaC++JavaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes infointeger and binaryyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infowith tagsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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