DBMS > EJDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NuoDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NuoDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

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

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

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

doc.nuodb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Softmotions

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Mireo

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

2020

1987

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Meet some database management systems you are likely to hear more about in the future
4 August 2014, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Announcing updates to Azure AI Search to help organizations build and scale generative AI applications
4 April 2024, Microsoft

Public Preview of Azure OpenAI and AI Search in-app connectors for Logic Apps (Standard) | Azure updates
2 April 2024, Microsoft

Microsoft’s Azure AI Search updated with increased storage, vector index size
5 April 2024, InfoWorld

Azure AI Studio Now Generally Available, Sporting New Models Both Big and Small
21 May 2024, Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Azure AI adds storage power, large RAG app support
5 April 2024, VentureBeat

provided by Google News

Dassault Systèmes Announces the Acquisition of NuoDB, a Cloud-Native Distributed SQL Database Leader
25 November 2020, Dassault Systèmes

Deploy the NuoDB Database in Docker Containers
16 October 2017, The New Stack

NuoDB has Microsoft SQL Server in its sights
8 May 2013, ZDNet

NuoDB empowers distributed database users to optimize cloud and container resources with new graphical dashboard
10 April 2018, Daily Host News

NuoDB bags $14.2M for distributed database technology
26 February 2014, VatorNews

provided by Google News

Share this page