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

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityA 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 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
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
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
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
questdb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.opengemini.org/­guidequestdb.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMicrosoftHuawei and openGemini communityQuestDB Technology IncSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20152022201420112018
Current releaseV11.1, July 20234.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringyesyes 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 indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-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 integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID for single-table writesnoACID
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.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationAdministrators and common users accountsnoRole-based access control
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Microsoft Azure AI SearchopenGeminiQuestDBSTSdbTerminusDB 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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