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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. QuestDB vs. Riak TS vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquestdb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20152014201520112018
Current releaseV13.0.0, September 20224.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlangC#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 indexesyesnorestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsyes, limitednoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
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
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangnoyes
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)ShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factornoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between datasets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID for single-table writesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnonoRole-based access control
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Microsoft Azure AI SearchQuestDBRiak TSSTSdbTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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