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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB vs. Prometheus vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB vs. Prometheus vs. SiteWhere

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpouchdb.comprometheus.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpouchdb.com/­guidesprometheus.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software FoundationSiteWhere
Initial release2015201220152010
Current releaseV17.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoJava
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infoby Federationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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