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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenQM vs. RDFox vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

1993

2017

2013

Current release

3.4-12

6.0, Septermber 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Roles, resources, and access types

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