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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. SQream DB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelSearch engineObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSTime Series 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
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchobjectbox.ioquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresqream.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.objectbox.iodoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedquasardbSiteWhereSQream Technologies
Initial release20152017200920102017
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++JavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary native APIHTTP APIHTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
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#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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