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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	GBase  Xexclude from comparison	LokiJS  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.	In-memory JavaScript DBMS	Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Document store	Search engine	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.05 Rank #186   Overall #86   Relational DBMS	Score 0.49 Rank #260   Overall #42   Document stores	Score 5.52 Rank #59   Overall #6   Search engines
Website	www.gbase.cn	github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation		techfort.github.io/­LokiJS	learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
Developer	General Data Technology Co., Ltd.		Microsoft	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2004	2014	2015	1993
Current release	GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c		V1
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language	C, Java, Python	JavaScript
Server operating systems	Linux	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no	yes	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	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes via views	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	Standard with numerous extensions	no	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET C API JDBC ODBC	JavaScript API	RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	C#	JavaScript	C# Java JavaScript Python	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions	View functions in JavaScript	no	yes
Triggers	yes	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning	none	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	none	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods		yes	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	none	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no atomic operations within a single collection possible	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes		yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	yes	no	yes using Azure authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	GBase	LokiJS	Microsoft Azure AI Search	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
DB-Engines blog posts		New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript 1 December 2014, Matthias Gelbmann show all
Recent citations in the news		LokiJS - A JavaScript Database 18 November 2014, iProgrammer provided by Google News	Azure OpenAI Service: Transforming legal practices with generative AI solutions 12 June 2024, Microsoft Announcing updates to Azure AI Search to help organizations build and scale generative AI applications 4 April 2024, Microsoft Public Preview of Azure OpenAI and AI Search in-app connectors for Logic Apps (Standard) | Azure updates 2 April 2024, Microsoft Raise the bar on AI-powered app development with Azure Database for PostgreSQL 5 June 2024, Microsoft Microsoft’s Azure AI Search updated with increased storage, vector index size 5 April 2024, InfoWorld provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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