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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. YugabyteDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbSiteWhereYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB200920102017
Current releaseV110 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 20242.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined schemedepending on used data model
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query languagenoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIHTTP RESTJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBaseHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCACIDnoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft Azure AI SearchPostgres-XLQuasardbSiteWhereYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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