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DBMS > GBase vs. Hazelcast vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Hazelcast vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.A widely adopted in-memory data gridWell established RDBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Vector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.05
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score7.66
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score5.15
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score5.72
Rank#66  Overall
#8  Search engines
Score78.51
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnhazelcast.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingreslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperHazelcastActian CorporationMicrosoftMicrosoft
Initial release20081974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20152010
Current releaseGBase 8a5.3.6, November 202311.2, May 2022V1V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesyesnoTransact SQL
Triggersyes infoEventsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapIngres Replicatoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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