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DBMS > BaseX vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. STSdb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.gridgain.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftSTS Soft SC
Initial release2007200720152011
Current release11.0, June 2024GridGain 8.5.1V14.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nono
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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