DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

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

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

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

rocksdb.org

surrealdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2015

2013

2022

2009

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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