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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SwayDB vs. Vertica vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

swaydb.simer.au

www.vertica.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

vertica.com/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Microsoft

Simer Plaha

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2015

2018

2005

2012

Current release

12.0.3, January 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

yes

Triggers

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

yes

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