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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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 KubernetesIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA 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 DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architectureoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperMicrosoftTobias OetikerApache Software FoundationByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20152017199920142016
Current releaseV11.8.0, 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringNumeric data onlyyesno
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexednonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
in-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnonono

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