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

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 APIA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpostgis.netpouchdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinyottadb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpostgis.net/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software FoundationYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20152005201220092001
Current releaseV13.4.2, February 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
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)Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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 SQLnoyesnonoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
TinkerPop 3PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptGroovy
Java
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesno
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
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesno
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 PostgreSQLnonoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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