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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Riak KV vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Riak KV vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2015200920182018
Current releaseV13.2.0, December 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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 indexesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangnoyes
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"noneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationyes, using Riak SecuritynoRole-based access control

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