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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. mSQL vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. mSQL vs. Vitess

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.16
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.26
Rank#158  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#192  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlvitess.io
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftHughes TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release201519942013
Current releaseV14.4, October 202115.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageCGo
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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 authenticationnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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