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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Search vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.61
Rank	#58	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.96
Rank	#178	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	31.68
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

nuodb.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

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

doc.nuodb.com

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Microsoft

NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2013

2005

Current release

3.2.1, February 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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Recent citations in the news

How to use Azure Search in .Net
23 April 2018, InfoWorld

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22 December 2021, TechTarget

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22 April 2021, CRN

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25 November 2020, businesswire.com

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