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

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Name

Description

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

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Search engine

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.pinecone.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Microsoft

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2019

2014

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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