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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentWidely used in-process key-value storeDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.splunk.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperMicrosoftOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclequasardbSiteWhereSplunk Inc.
Initial release20151994200920102003
Current releaseV118.1.40, May 20203.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++Java
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes 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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query languagenono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP RESTHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APInoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles

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