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

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

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 developmentA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
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
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnhazelcast.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.HazelcastMicrosoftSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20042008201420152022
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.3.6, November 2023V1v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaJavaScriptRust
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoReplicated Mapnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 possiblenoACID
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, based on authentication and database rules

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