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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Coveo vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Coveo vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Search engineRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.coveo.comwww.h2database.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.coveo.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCambridge SemanticsCoveoThomas MuellerMicrosoft
Initial release20142018201220052015
Current release2.3, January 20212.2.220, July 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supporthybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingyesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusteryesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authentication

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