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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PlanetScale vs. Quasardb vs. RavenDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PlanetScale vs. Quasardb vs. RavenDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchplanetscale.comquasar.airavendb.netgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchplanetscale.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterravendb.net/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftPlanetScalequasardbHibernating RhinosSiteWhere
Initial release20152020200920102010
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++C#Java
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP API.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at shard levelACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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