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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. TinkerGraph

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpatial extension of PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#345  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpostgis.netpouchdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpostgis.net/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20152005201220092009
Current releaseV13.4.2, February 20247.1.1, June 20193.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptErlangno
Triggersnoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoyes, using Riak Securityno

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