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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. RDFox vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. RDFox vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#309  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.iowww.oxfordsemantic.techspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.oxfordsemantic.techspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperMicrosoftOxford Semantic TechnologiesApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20152017201720141987
Current releaseV16.0, Septermber 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaC++ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
C
Java
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicereplication via a shared file systemnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationRoles, resources, and access typesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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