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

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

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  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 KubernetesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.42
Rank#161  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.iospark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architecturespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmldocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbHVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20152017201419872018
Current releaseV13.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaScalaC and C++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
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 servicenoneSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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