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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Pinecone vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.pinecone.ioquasar.aigithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperMicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncquasardbSTS Soft SC
Initial release2015201920092011
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C#
Server operating systemshostedhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyes infointeger and binaryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Python.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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