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DBMS > GBase vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Riak KV

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

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A widely adopted in-memory data gridIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeSearch engineKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Vector DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational 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
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gbase.cnhazelcast.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.HazelcastMicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20042008201420152009
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.3.6, November 2023V13.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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 strategynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions in JavaScriptnoErlang
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoReplicated Mapnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole-based access controlnoyes infousing Azure authenticationyes, using Riak Security

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