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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. QuestDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquestdb.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchquestdb.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperMicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncSiteWhereTranswarp
Initial release201520142010
Current releaseV1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolpredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Microsoft Azure AI SearchQuestDBSiteWhereTranswarp ArgoDB
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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