DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB vs. Trino

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Name

Description

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

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

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

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

trino.io

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

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Developer

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

ByteDance, originally Terark

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2013

1992

2016

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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