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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

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

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2014

1999

2015

1989

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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