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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TigerGraph vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

google.github.io/lovefield

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

www.tigergraph.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

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

docs.tigergraph.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Microsoft

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2004

2014

2015

2017

1998

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.1.12, February 2017

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

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
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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