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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Qdrant vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase vs. Vertica

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperMicrosoftQdrantMireoTransaction Software GmbHOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20152021202019872005
Current releaseV1Transbase 8.3, 202212.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageRustC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesyesyes
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 infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textnoyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
C++
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnonoyesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingFixed-grid hypercubeshorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceCollection-level replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationKey-based authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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Microsoft Azure AI SearchQdrantSpaceTimeTransbaseVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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