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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiteWhere vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name	Microsoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	SiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp Hippo  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	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data	Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database model	Search engine	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Vector DBMS
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 0.06 Rank #383   Overall #43   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.05 Rank #386   Overall #14   Vector DBMS
Website	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentation	learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search		sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Developer	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	SiteWhere
Initial release	2015	1993	2010	2023
Current release	V1			1.0, May 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language			Java	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	Linux OS X Windows	Linux macOS
Data scheme	yes	yes	predefined scheme
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	Vector, Numeric and String
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
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	no	no
APIs and other access methods	RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	HTTP REST	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	C# Java JavaScript Python	Delphi Perl PHP		C++ Java Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes		no
Triggers	no	yes		no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Sharding based on HBase	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	selectable replication factor based on HBase
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	no	no
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	no	yes
User concepts Access control	yes using Azure authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Users with fine-grained authorization concept	Role based access control and fine grained access rights
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	Microsoft Azure AI Search	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	SiteWhere	Transwarp Hippo
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	SiteWhere: An open platform for connected devices 11 July 2017, Open Source For You Ten Popular IoT Platforms You Should be Aware of 27 March 2023, Open Source For You 11 Best Open source IoT Platforms To Develop Smart Projects 9 March 2023, H2S Media provided by Google News

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