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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

sphinxsearch.com

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

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

sphinxsearch.com/docs

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2001

1987

2019

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

free development license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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