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

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Name

Description

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
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Score	6.87
Rank	#55	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

hazelcast.com

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Hazelcast

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2008

2015

2010

2000

Current release

GBase 8a

5.3.6, November 2023

V12

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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