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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpatial extension of PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APICloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#345  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#16  Vector DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpostgis.netpouchdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpostgis.net/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release20152005201220092023
Current releaseV13.4.2, February 20247.1.1, June 20191.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesVector, Numeric and String
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 viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
TinkerPop 3RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptGroovy
Java
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
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-loungenoneSharding
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 methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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