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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Solr vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Solr vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelSearch engineSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsolr.apache.orgswaydb.simer.auwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software FoundationSimer PlahaOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2015200620181998
Current releaseV19.6.1, May 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSolr Parallel SQL Interfacenoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava pluginsnoPL/SQL
Triggersnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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