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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. searchxml vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSearch engineNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMicrosoftinformationpartners gmbhSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2015201520182018
Current releaseV11.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedWindowsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJava
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoon the application servernoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnoneJournaling Streams
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 integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnoRole-based access control

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