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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerarkDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 KubernetesRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSA 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 modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
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Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.iordf4j.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architecturerdf4j.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SAP, SybaseByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20152017200419872016
Current releaseV116.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJava and Transact-SQLno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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