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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Qdrant vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Qdrant vs. Spark SQL

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
spark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchqdrant.tech/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperMicrosoftQdrantApache Software Foundation
Initial release201520212014
Current releaseV13.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageRustScala
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
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 serviceCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationKey-based authenticationno

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