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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Netezza vs. Realm vs. ToroDB vs. VoltDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzarealm.iogithub.com/­torodb/­serverwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchrealm.io/­docsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperMicrosoftIBMRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 20198KdataVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20152000201420162010
Current releaseV111.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoincluded in applianceAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VMLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryJava
Triggersnonoyes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesAccess rights for users and rolesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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