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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SiteWhere

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#259  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquasar.aiquestdb.ioraima.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docsdocs.raima.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbQuestDB Technology IncRaima Inc.SiteWhere
Initial release20152009201419842010
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 202415, June 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustCJava
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyesyes
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.nononono infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Microsoft Azure AI SearchQuasardbQuestDBRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Raima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Decreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Typical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Infor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metricsOver 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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Just as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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