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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. mSQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tkrzw 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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

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

Website

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sequoiadb.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2015

1994

2013

2020

2009

Current release

4.4, October 2021

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

none

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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