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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Pinecone vs. SiteWhere vs. Valentina Server

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA managed, cloud-native vector databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperMicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncSiteWhereParadigma Software
Initial release2015201920101999
Current releaseV15.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Python.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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