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

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

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

www.gbase.cn

hazelcast.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

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

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

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

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hazelcast

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Microsoft

Initial release

2004

2008

2014

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2015

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.3.6, November 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

View functions in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

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