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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelSearch engineObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchobjectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedSTS Soft SC
Initial release201520172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2011
Current releaseV110 R1, October 20184.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC#
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Microsoft Azure AI SearchObjectBoxPostgres-XLSTSdb
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