DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SWC-DB vs. Tkrzw vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SWC-DB vs. Tkrzw vs. Transbase

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Alex Kashirin

Mikio Hirabayashi

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2015

1984

2020

1987

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

0.5, April 2021

0.9.3, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

Linux

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes, on a single node

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

Announcing updates to Azure AI Search to help organizations build and scale generative AI applications
4 April 2024, Microsoft

Microsoft and ServiceNow at Knowledge 2024: Introducing generative AI innovation
13 June 2024, Microsoft

Azure OpenAI Service: Transforming legal practices with generative AI solutions
12 June 2024, Microsoft

Public Preview of Azure OpenAI and AI Search in-app connectors for Logic Apps (Standard) | Azure updates
2 April 2024, Microsoft

Raise the bar on AI-powered app development with Azure Database for PostgreSQL
5 June 2024, Microsoft

provided by Google News

Oracle Adds New AI-Enabling Features To MySQL HeatWave
23 March 2023, Forbes

Should we all consolidate databases for the storage benefits? Reg vultures deploy DevOps, zoos, haircuts
18 September 2020, The Register

2013 Data Science Salary Survey – O'Reilly
4 May 2013, O'Reilly Media

provided by Google News

2022 All O-Zone Football Team
17 December 2022, Ozarks Sports Zone

provided by Google News

Share this page