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

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

google.github.io/lovefield

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

nsdb.io

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

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

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

Developer

Exasol

Google

Microsoft

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2000

2014

2015

2017

1987

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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