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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. Transbase

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.harperdb.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.harperdb.io/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperExasolHarperDBMicrosoftTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20002017201520171987
Current release3.1, August 2021V1Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageNode.jsJava, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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