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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OrientDB vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OrientDB vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score3.02
Rank#88  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchorientdb.orgswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMicrosoftOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2015201020182018
Current releaseV13.2.29, March 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, Javascriptnoyes
TriggersnoHooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenoRole-based access control

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