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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. Tarantool vs. TerminusDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionDocument store
RDF store
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
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.tarantool.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbSiteWhereVKDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20152009201020082018
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 20242.10.0, May 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes
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 infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP RESTOpen binary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyes
Triggersnonoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Graph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes, write ahead loggingyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modenoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
Role-based access control

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