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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Qdrant

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.28
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#106  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperMicrosoftQdrant
Initial release20152021
Current releaseV1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageRust
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationKey-based authentication

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