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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TiDB vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TiDB vs. Tigris

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
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Score5.16
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score3.74
Rank#71  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#360  Overall
#50  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#23  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpingcap.comwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablewww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftPingCAP, Inc.Tigris Data, Inc.
Initial release201520162022
Current releaseV18.2.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageGo, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by key range)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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