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

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

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.In-memory JavaScript DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.gbase.cnhazelcast.comignite.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsapacheignite.readme.io/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.HazelcastApache Software FoundationMicrosoft
Initial release20042008201520142015
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.3.6, November 2023Apache Ignite 2.6V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaC++, Java, .NetJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-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.yesyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
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 nodesyesyes infoReplicated Mapyes (replicated cache)noneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDno 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 controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoyes infousing Azure authentication

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