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

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#259  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquasar.airaima.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.raima.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbRaima Inc.SiteWhereSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20152009198420102014
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 licensescommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CJava
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyespredefined schemeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
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.nonono infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBaseyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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 modeyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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Microsoft Azure AI SearchQuasardbRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaSiteWhereSnowflake
Specific characteristicsRaima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantagesDecreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenariosTypical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customersInfor, 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 modelsJust as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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