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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Qdrant vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Qdrant vs. Trafodion

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score5.28
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#106  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchqdrant.tech/­documentationtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperMicrosoftQdrantApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release201520212014
Current releaseV12.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageRustC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
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-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceCollection-level replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
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 authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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