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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. QuestDB vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. Valentina Server

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataKey-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 relationshipsObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational 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
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquestdb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchquestdb.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#valentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperMicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.Paradigma Software
Initial release20152014201120181999
Current releaseV14.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID for single-table writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Microsoft Azure AI SearchQuestDBSTSdbTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistValentina Server
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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