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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

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

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

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

nsdb.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Microsoft

Mireo

Transaction Software GmbH

Transwarp

Initial release

2015

2017

2020

1987

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
Scala

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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