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DBMS > GBase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA widely adopted in-memory data gridIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value storeDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.gigaspaces.comhazelcast.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Gigaspaces TechnologiesHazelcastMicrosoft
Initial release20042000200820142015
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c15.5, September 20205.3.6, November 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyes, event driven architectureyes infoEventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infoReplicated Mapnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole-based access controlRole-based access controlnoyes infousing Azure authentication

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