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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Pinecone vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tkrzw

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA managed, cloud-native vector databaseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.51
Rank#59  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score3.09
Rank#84  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score2.96
Rank#89  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
Score3.24
Rank#81  Overall
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#386  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.pinecone.iorocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmldbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperMicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncFacebook, Inc.SAP infoformerly SybaseMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20152019201319922020
Current releaseV19.4.0, June 202417, July 20150.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleannoyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
PythonC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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