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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Search vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	7.61
Rank	#58	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.09
Rank	#321	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.52
Rank	#65	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

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

quasardb.net

riak.com/products/riak-kv

Technical documentation

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Microsoft

quasardb

Basho Technologies

Initial release

2015

2009

Current release

3.13.3, April 2022

2.1.0, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript and Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Large EU investment banks US based hedge funds Orolia Tellmeplus
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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