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

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

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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 databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchplanetscale.comquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.stardog.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchplanetscale.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.stardog.com
DeveloperMicrosoftPlanetScalequasardbSiteWhereStardog-Union
Initial release20152020200920102010
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 20247.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nononono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languagenoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP RESTGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
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
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnoyesnoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBasenone
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 factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenonoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at shard levelACIDnoACID
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 modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles

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