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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Pinecone vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Pinecone vs. Qdrant

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.70
Rank#59  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score3.06
Rank#87  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.69
Rank#136  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperMicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncQdrant
Initial release201520192021
Current releaseV1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageRust
Server operating systemshostedhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, BooleanNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Python.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationKey-based authentication

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