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DBMS > Altibase vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. mSQL

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.kingbase.com.cnazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchhughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAltibaseBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.MicrosoftHughes Technologies
Initial release1999199920151994
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023V8.0, August 2021V14.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C and JavaC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92Standard with numerous extensionsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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