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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx vs. VelocityDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelSearch engineSearch engineGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsphinxsearch.comvelocitydb.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsphinxsearch.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuidewakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.VelocityDB IncWakanda SAS
Initial release2015200120112012
Current releaseV13.5.1, February 20237.x2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C#C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NETLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol.NetRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.NetJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnoBased on Windows Authenticationyes

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