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DBMS > GBase vs. Ignite vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Ignite vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP IQ

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnignite.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaselearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software FoundationEmbarcaderoMicrosoftSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20042015198420151994
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cApache Ignite 2.6InterBase 2020, December 2019V116.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++, Java, .NetC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoyes
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes (replicated cache)Interbase Change Viewsyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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