DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OushuDB vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OushuDB vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

rocksdb.org

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

Technical documentation

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

www.oushu.com/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Microsoft

Oushu

Facebook, Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2015

2013

1998

Current release

4.0.1, August 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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