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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx vs. Tarantool

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsphinxsearch.comwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperMicrosoftTobias OetikerSphinx Technologies Inc.VK
Initial release2015199920012008
Current releaseV11.8.0, 20223.5.1, February 20232.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedHP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynostring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)Full-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Proprietary protocolOpen binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnononoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneCasual 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 integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnonoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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