DBMS > BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. Redis vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. Redis vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Popular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	156.44
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

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

nsdb.io

redis.com
redis.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.redis.com/latest/index.html
redis.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2007

2015

2017

2009

1987

Current release

10.7, August 2023

7.2.4, January 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

with RediSearch module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

with RediSQL module

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

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

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Automatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

using Azure authentication

Access Control Lists (ACLs): redis.io/docs/management/security/acl
LDAP and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Redis Enterprise
Mutual TLS authentication: redis.io/docs/management/security/encryption
Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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