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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#14  Vector DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperMicrosoft
Initial release20152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2023
Current releaseV110 R1, October 20181.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, 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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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