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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase vs. Valentina Server

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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 KubernetesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.iospark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architecturespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbHParadigma Software
Initial release20152017201419871999
Current releaseV13.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyesyes
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 indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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