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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. SpatiaLite

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpouchdb.comquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpouchdb.com/­guidesdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software FoundationquasardbSiteWhereAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20152012200920102008
Current releaseV17.1.1, June 20193.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBasenone
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
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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