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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. VelocityDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchopentsdb.netquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherevelocitydb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsquasardbSiteWhereVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20152011200920102011
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial 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 languageJavaC++JavaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP APIHTTP REST.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersnononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
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 modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptBased on Windows Authentication

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