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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenEdge vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Score	3.75
Rank	#88	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

1984

2000

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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 and groups

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