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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SingleStore vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SingleStore vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Yaacomo

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquasar.aiwww.singlestore.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatayaacomo.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.singlestore.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbSingleStore Inc.Rocket SoftwareQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20152009201319852009
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 20248.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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SingleStoreDB Cloud: The world's fastest, modern cloud database for both operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads. Available instantly with multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud capabilities
Implementation languageC++C++, GoC
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesoptionalyes
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 tagsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APICluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes
Triggersnononoyes infoU2 Basicyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infohash partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft Azure AI SearchQuasardbSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLUniData,UniVerseYaacomo
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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