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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Widely used RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Search engine

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

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

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle

quasardb

Initial release

2015

2017

1980

2009

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

23c, September 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

integer and binary

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

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18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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