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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Riak TS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Stardog

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Name	Microsoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison	Riak TS  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Stardog  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development	Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database model	Search engine	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS RDF store
Secondary database models	Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 5.52 Rank #59   Overall #6   Search engines	Score 0.28 Rank #307   Overall #27   Time Series DBMS		Score 2.07 Rank #122   Overall #11   Graph DBMS #6   RDF stores
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search		www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.stardog.com
Technical documentation	learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search	www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest		docs.stardog.com
Developer	Microsoft	Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies	Sybase, SAP	Stardog-Union
Initial release	2015	2015	1993	2010
Current release	V1	3.0.0, September 2022		7.3.0, May 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source	commercial	commercial 60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Erlang		Java
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux OS X	Linux Windows	Linux macOS Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no	yes	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.	no	no	no	no Import/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexes	yes	restricted	yes	yes supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes, limited	yes	Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methods	RESTful HTTP API	HTTP API Native Erlang Interface	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	GraphQL query language HTTP API Jena RDF API OWL RDF4J API Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SNARL SPARQL Spring Data Stardog Studio TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages	C# Java JavaScript Python	C 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	Delphi Perl PHP	.Net Clojure Groovy Java JavaScript Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Erlang	yes	user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggers	no	yes pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks	yes	yes via event handlers
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	selectable replication factor	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no links between datasets can be stored	yes	yes relationships in graphs
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	yes using Azure authentication	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Access rights for users and roles
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	Microsoft Azure AI Search	Riak TS	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Stardog
Recent citations in the news	Announcing updates to Azure AI Search to help organizations build and scale generative AI applications 4 April 2024, Microsoft Public Preview of Azure OpenAI and AI Search in-app connectors for Logic Apps (Standard) | Azure updates 2 April 2024, Microsoft Microsoft’s Azure AI Search updated with increased storage, vector index size 5 April 2024, InfoWorld From code to production: New ways Azure helps you build transformational AI experiences 21 May 2024, Microsoft Celebrating customers' journeys to AI innovation at Microsoft Build 2024 30 May 2024, Microsoft provided by Google News		SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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