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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.45
Rank	#60	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1.14
Rank	#169	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

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

Developer

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2015

1994

Current release

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

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