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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Realm vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Realm vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrealm.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchrealm.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMicrosoftRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019TeradataDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2015201420052018
Current releaseV111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryR packagesyes
Triggersnoyes infoChange Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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