DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ vs. VoltDB

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Name

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Description

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

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

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	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

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

rocksdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

TempoIQ

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2015

2013

2012

2010

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication
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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

simple authentication-based access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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