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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Netezza vs. SiriDB vs. SiteWhere vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Open Source Time Series DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

siridb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.siridb.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

IBM

Cesbit

SiteWhere

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2000

2017

2010

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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