DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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	#8	Search engines

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2009

2013

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

yes, using Riak Security

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