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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score5.28
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4surrealdb.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftSTS Soft SCSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release201520112022
Current releaseV14.0.8, September 2015v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC#Rust
Server operating systemshostedWindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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