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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#367  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpouchdb.comquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpouchdb.com/­guidesdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software FoundationquasardbOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhere
Initial release20152012200920092010
Current releaseV17.1.1, June 20193.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++ErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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 indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infowith tagsrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnoErlang
Triggersnoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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