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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SWC-DB vs. Tkrzw vs. Transbase vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#202	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

vitess.io

Technical documentation

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Mikio Hirabayashi

Transaction Software GmbH

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2015

2020

1987

2013

Current release

0.5, April 2021

0.9.3, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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