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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. SurrealDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector 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
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresurrealdb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhereSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20152009200920102022
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 2022v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangJavaRust
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binarynoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP RESTGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlang
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes, based on authentication and database rules

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