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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpatial extension of PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational 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
Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpostgis.netpouchdb.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpostgis.net/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guideswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2015200520122000
Current releaseV13.4.2, February 20247.1.1, June 20193.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesyes
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-loungenone
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
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
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 PostgreSQLnono

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